Title: Both One
Scripture: Ephesians 2:11-22
Speaker: Reid Kapple, ReidK@cckc.church

“We should have been the first people saying ‘black lives matter’...We should have been shouting that the loudest…But what I fear is that our first response is to say that we have to keep all of this out of the church, when in fact we should have been leading these conversations within the church…We often end up using our critiques…to justify not having the conversations in a proper way within the church.” -Rebecca McLaughlin

> The gospel makes us and moves us to be family

“The scope of Christ’s work on the cross extends from personal forgiveness to remaking the people of God, done in a single, redemptive motion of death-resurrection-ascension. This point is especially pertinent for those who see ‘personal’ salvation as step one and ‘corporate’ participation in the church as step two in their Christian journey.”
-Dr. Lynnn Cohick

“In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard many ministers say: "Those are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern." And I have watched many churches commit themselves to a completely other worldly religion which makes a strange, un-Biblical distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the secular.” -Dr. Martin Luther King (Letter from a Birmingham Jail)

“The peace that makes the two one is not an entailment of a personal justification, a second step, if you will, in an individual’s salvation journey. Instead, the new humanity created by this peace is another way of expressing ‘by grace you have been saved.’”
-Dr. Lynn Cohick

“It's not that we build our unity, because Christ built that. Christ didn't make this a possibility for us to achieve, he made it a reality that he achieved and created.”
-Dr. Jarvis Williams (One New Man)

“The reason we haven’t solved the race problem in America after hundreds of years is that people apart from God are trying to create unity while people under God who already have unity are not living out the unity we possess. The result of both of these conditions is disastrous for America. Our failure to find cultural unity as a nation is directly related to the church's failure to preserve our spiritual unity. The church has already been given unity because we have been made part of the same family.”
-Dr. Tony Evans (Oneness Embraced)

> Repent and trust Jesus

> Recognize the dividing walls

“Some Christians argue that we shouldn't even talk about race or use the word since it’s a manmade concept. Using the term only serves to further divide us…Discarding the word race would make it easier to ignore the devastating and deadly impact of racialized ghettoization. Further we would fool ourselves into thinking that this is just a problem of the past.” Dr. Irwyn Ince (The Beautiful Community)

“Race is a biological fiction but a sociological fact.” -Dr. Jarvis Williams

> Rebuild the ruins