Episode 16: We are on the same team! Ephesians 2:11-22

I am a college football fanatic! There is no sporting atmosphere that rivals a good college football tailgate. Thousands of people drive for hours to hang out in a parking lot together. Even if people can’t make it to the stadium, nothing seems to bring people together like football. Fans meet in houses and sports bars just to be around other people who root for the same team.

The same way that football unites people of all backgrounds and walks of life around a common love, our love for Jesus is what unites Christians around the world as one church. A shared love for Jesus breaks down the wall of hostility between people who would disagree in any other setting — Republicans and Democrats, Duck fans and Beaver fans, Coke people and Pepsi people. At the time Ephesians was written, the great divide was between Jews and non-Jews, or Gentiles. But the message remains the same: In the Church, we all root for the same team, because we’ve all received the same grace.

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