"Our country is more divided than ever." It's a phrase we hear constantly — and there's real truth to it. But the "us vs. them" mentality isn't new. Throughout history, people have naturally gravitated toward those who look, speak, and think like them. That instinct isn't always sinful — but it becomes sin when it leads us to exclude, mistreat, or look down on others made in the very image of God.

In this week's message, Pastor Mark Seager takes us into Acts 10, where the early church faced the same fractures — prejudice, ethnic tension, walls between insiders and outsiders. And God didn't work around those divides politely. He broke through them supernaturally, shaping the Church into the truly multicultural community he always intended it to be.

Along the way, Pastor Mark takes an honest look at the cultural debate around DEI — and offers a reframe. Rather than getting drawn into the political crossfire, he suggests Christians see it differently: the hunger for diversity, equality, and inclusion reveals a deep human yearning that man-made programs simply can't satisfy. Hearts don't change through social engineering. They change through the gospel.

Grounded in Galatians 3:28 — "neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" — this is a call to let our primary identity be the gospel, not our tribe.

A timely, challenging, and hopeful word for a divided world.

Speaker: Mark Seager
Series: Going Public

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