New: “having recently come into existence” – Merriam-Webster Online

You and I are “new” together. I know that seems a bit strange as you come from not here with me. I am from a small town in Texas and you are from, well face, I may not know, but not necessarily from a small town in Texas. Yet, in the name of Christ, we are the same.

This is not something that would have come about without Christ. We come from different places and have different cultures and certainly look different, but we are the same in the name of Christ. We serve the risen savior. We worship Him and have become the same based on Him. Our being one together in Christ is new and something never seen before and will never be seen again.

I look at where I am in the world today and begin thinking of all the division in this world. I think of how we are all at odds with one another based on whatever society says we are to be at odds. What a poor example we are setting for those who are with us and those who will come after us. There is so much separation as the world only thinks of itself and what can be had by the one.

“¹⁴For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility ¹⁵by 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, ¹⁶and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.” — Ephesians 2:14-16 (ESV)

I propose that we come together, not for me, but for you. I believe that we should be coming together as one, new together. We should be putting our differences aside to be new together. As I noted the definition of “new”, we should be the example of just coming into existence where something was not before. I propose unity and working to spread the same gospel.

There is plenty of time to be different in the way we go about things. The way we look. The way we speak. But there is not enough time to be at odds as to our purpose. I have to be like you and you like me in the approach to spreading the gospel to reach all corners of the world.

So, you and I may not be from the same small town in Texas. We may come from different cultures. We may be different in language. We may look different and act different and frankly, be different. But we are new together. One in our goal to ensure that the gospel reaches everyone.

What is your approach to you and I together? Are you looking at us as being different? What if we approached this all as though we are one, new together in Christ with one goal?