Unity

 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 

Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 

one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Ephesians 4:1-6

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Because the Cross of Christ is our equalizer: at the Cross of Christ, we find ourselves on a level playing field; no matter our nationality, race, tribe or background, when we approach the Cross, we do so without exception, as sinners (without hope and destined for Hell) in need of a Savior: of which there is only ONE.

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For there is no distinction: 

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 3:21-23

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:12-13

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 

remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 

and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 

And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 

For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 

in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 

In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:11-22