City of Light Church
Sermon Notes: 3.3.24 Family Matters
Speaker: Brian Mckee
Locations & Times
City of Light Church
6725 W Burleigh St, Milwaukee, WI 53210, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
God Always Wanted A family
Broken Family
By learning to love people from different ethnicity and experience, we are forced to grow into true disciples of Jesus
By learning to love people from different ethnicity and experience, we are forced to grow into true disciples of Jesus
In Christ, your brothers and sisters are Native, Asian, Hispanic, African and European people. Look around. If you are born again, your family is global
If you are born again, fighting the sins of racism and racial injustice are not optional
If you are born again, fighting the sins of racism and racial injustice are not optional
Everyone Who Believes - Jews & Gentiles
Why We Should Talk About “Race”
Why We Should Talk About “Race”
Race - a class system based upon skin color (no scientific justification)
Ethnicity - People groups based upon geography
Hebrew - Goy or Am / Greek - Ethnos
Ethnicity - People groups based upon geography
Hebrew - Goy or Am / Greek - Ethnos
Acts 17:26-27….from one man, God created every ethnos, their appointed times and boundaries…
God Has Always Promised A Multiethnic Family To Abraham
God Has Always Promised A Multiethnic Family To Abraham
Jesus came to a world filled with ethnic tension/division/hatred
We should talk about Racism and Injustice because Jesus, Paul and the disciples did and it is throughout the Bible.
God Promised Abraham A Family
God Promised Abraham A Family
This family is called the Church
The Apostle Paul fought for this Unity and faced opposition
Our ethnicity is a gift from God
When we display our ethnicity through its Godly qualities, we draw a fallen, broken world back to God
When we display our ethnicity through its Godly qualities, we draw a fallen, broken world back to God
God Wants Rich Variety
Next Step
Live it out in community - bit.ly/colcgroups
Live it out in community - bit.ly/colcgroups