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The Gospel & Ethnic Unity Sermon

Shai Linne [Guest Speaker]

Scripture References & Sermon Points

Takeaway = The Church & Ethnic Unity 

• Scripture Reference: Galatians 2: 11-16

• Scripture Reference: Galatians 1: 6-7

• Scripture Reference: Acts 15: 1

• Scripture Reference: Romans 4: 4-5

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 1. Ethnic Hatred

• Scripture Reference: Esther 9:24

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 2. Ethnic Pride

• Scripture Reference: 1 Samuel 17: 8

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 3. Ethnic Favoritism (or Partiality)

• Scripture Reference: James 2: 9

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 4. Ethnic Oppression

• Quote “As the generation-long battle against urban prostitution and corner saloons disproportionately targeted immigrant communities (in the early 1900s), the generation-long drug war that began in the 1970s disproportionately targeted black communities. The peak of that discriminatory drug war came in 1986, with the passage of federal legislation that punished possession of one gram of crack as much as possession of one hundred grams of cocaine powder. (Most cocaine powder defendants were white; blacks were a minority of crack users but the overwhelming majority of crack defendants)” – William Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

• Scripture Reference: Exodus 3: 9

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 5. Ethnic Idolatry

• Scripture Reference: Numbers 12 :1–16

• Common Ethnic Sins: No 6. Ethnic Neglect

• Scripture Reference: Proverbs 3: 27

• Scripture Reference: Acts 10: 28

• Scripture Reference: Acts 10: 34–35

Implications of the doctrine of justification for the area of ethnic unity.

1. The Doctrine of Justification Equips Us to Address Ethnic Sin in the Church
   • Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 6:9–11

2. The Doctrine of Justification Exhorts Us to Acknowledge Our Own Ethnic Sins
   Quote “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” Tim Keller

3. The Doctrine of Justification Empowers Us to Forgive the Ethnic Sins of Other Christians

4. The Doctrine of Justification Emboldens Us to Call Out the Ethnic Sins of Our Own Group

5. The Doctrine of Justification Encourages Us to Find Our Ultimate Identity in Christ

• Scripture Reference: Philippians 3:8

Sermon Discussion Questions

Get to know me:
Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to generate responses that are self-revealing and informative. Feel free to ask all of these questions to your group or simply choose the one that best fits your group.

1. What, if anything, happened this week that was interesting or an obvious nudge from God?

Into the Bible:
Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to draw group members into the Bible to discover truth from passages that were not the primary text for the weekend message.
Read: Insert your own scripture from this week’s Bible Reading here.

1. What does this passage mean?

2. What is the lesson here?

Application:
Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to apply the main points from the weekend message.

1. What, if anything, jumped out at you personally?

2. What is God saying to you on a personal level in this passage?

3. What are you going to do about it?