While our society is very individualistic, we still embrace corporate labels like "American", "Hoosier", and/or "Cowboys fan".
For much of history, there were only two labels that mattered, spiritually speaking. They were "Jew" and "Gentile". Any one not born into the people of Israel were outsiders, excluded from God's redemptive plan. Gentiles could partake through converting and conforming to the Law, but they were not on equal footing.
That all changed with Christ and Paul lays it all out in Ephesians 2:11-22. In Christ, God has taken those two groups and made a new community by destroying what had divided them.
No longer, misfits, we are members of God's people, the Church.
So this week's Music Monday features a theologically-rich rap by Lecrae that spells out who we are and what God has made us.
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