Christianity and Race

I was one of the thousands of people who attended the Together for the Gospel (T4G) Conference back in 2008, a conference that occurs every two years encouraging and exhorting pastors to stand "Together for the Gospel."

Today being the observation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, I thought I post this clip of Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile's sermon highlight from the same conference that touches upon the biblical perspective of "race." It is an important and needed reminder that the only "race" (if I may use that term) that really matters is one that surfaces as a result of sovereign regeneration. My biological identity may be Asian-American, but one that is of greater spiritual significance and eternal relevance is that I am one who by God's grace is part and within "God's chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession" (1 Pet 2:9 [Emphases Added]). This biblical "race" is the one matters to both this life and the next. By way of implication then, there is only one race that sinful man must seek to abandon, which is the fallen human race in its unregenerate state. The gospel is the very way of that abandonment! That should be our "dream"!