Every American Christian is touched by our nation’s terrible racial history, from the slave period to the Jim Crow era and beyond. Ours is a blood-stained legacy we cannot easily forget. It will take more than good intentions or well-meaning attempts to “forget about it and move on.”
True healing and reconciliation will require the work of the Holy Spirit to unify us as one people, one multiethnic body of which Christ is the head (Col. 1:18; John 17:20–26). This is the outworking of the gospel in the Christian church, and though such unity doesn’t earn us our salvation, it is a clear and necessary expression of it. The tree planted by streams of living water will always bear the fruit of reconciliation.
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