How to Win Every Race

July 22, 2018

In a culture that seeks to divide people based on race, Christians are called to look at all people as created by the very hands of God and worthy of dignity and respect. If we begin to look at people how God looks at people and how the Bible instructs us to look at people, we will start loving everyone regardless of race. And when we do that, we can truly win every race.

Topics: Reconciliation, Racial Reconciliation

In this series

Elephant In the Room

There are some topics you never discuss in church. And especially preach a sermon on them. Join Pastor Merritt as he takes four important items from our culture that we typically sweep under the rug, and brings them under the spotlight of God's Word. These are the elephants in the room... we're confronted with these every day but we simply don't talk about them. Until now!

Bible Reference

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,

and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”

have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?

Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

How to Win Every Race

July 22, 2018

In this series

Elephant In the Room

Bible Reference

James 2:1-12