At a recent software conference, the Chief Technology Officer developed a theme of what if we could solve some problem and iterated with their solutions.
I thought, what if we took the Apostle Paul at his word when he wrote to the Jesus followers in Galatia, There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
What if we ended the game of dividing people into groups deciding which we liked and which we didn’t?
What if we accepted each person for what they are perhaps also seeing what they could be?
What if we ended all this nonsense of gender politics, racial politics, culture politics?
Well, the political part can’t happen—that’s how politicians build enough of a coalition to get elected only to reward some of their followers.
But, for followers of Jesus, for those who proudly proclaim themselves to be Christian, what if we put aside those divisions in favor of treating each person as the child of God that they are?
What a wonderful world it would be.
Faith Venture 
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