God’s Community from Nation to Creation
Sermon led by Dr. Tom Robinson on Father’s Day focusing on how when the Church was growing the cultural differences in the churches popping up around the world there was initially some friction, but through Jesus it was overcome. Building off of his sermon on Pentecost, while people did all hear in different languages, there was always still the same meaning. Instead of those cultural differences between Jews and Greeks being what controlled people, Jesus and the Christian persecution that followed shortly after Jesus’s death forced the disciples and other Christian-Jews to interact with Greek people. As a result, their preconceptions fell away as they realized each other were human, and many Greeks were converted to Christianity after the apostles spoke to them. Jesus coming changed the world from what it was before: there is no Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; they are all those anointed in Christ.