Multicultural by Design

Multicultural - consisting of or relating to people of many different nationalities and cultures.

Our text today gives us a picture of God’s multicultural church. From a biblical point of view, the human race is divided into two distinct groups, the Jews and everyone else. The term the Bible uses for everyone else is the Gentiles. It simply means non-Jews and is sometimes translated by the word “nations.” Since there are about 15 million Jews amid a total world population of over 7 billion, nearly everyone falls into the category of Gentile. Our passage tells us that God wants the Gentiles in his church. That’s good to know because if God didn’t want the Gentiles, most of us would be automatically excluded from salvation. But God does want the Gentiles, which means that the church of Jesus Christ, the real church, God’s church–must be multicultural.