Until the Lord Jesus Christ returns, the church has been called to live out our Gospel redemption together. Ethnocentrism has no place among our ranks, as we are perfectly united in Jesus Christ. It does not matter what color, culture, or country we hail from; we serve a more excellent King who has made us one in Christ! We now see all people, from all strata, as being created in the image of God.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel,for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes,to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” Romans 1:16
Despite what secular woke artists, race baiters, and critical race grifters may tell you, ethnicity is not primary to our identity. The world is not divided into systemic oppressors and marginalized victims. And your melanin count is not the most important thing about you. It just isn’t.
In this article, I want to reject every godless notion that racism can be fought with more racism. Instead, I want to embrace the commonsense notion that increased divisiveness does not lead to increased unity. And I want to stand upon the only truth that can bring healing to our land. To do that, I will entirely ignore every pagan secular philosophy that has an opinion on this issue, and instead, I will joyfully share the Gospel! That message is what we need to hear, now more than ever.
WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?
In its most basic form, the Gospel is the four-part story of how God is bringing redemption to sinful man. Part 1 is the story of how God created humans to be perfect. Part 2 is about how those same humans chose rebellion and fell into sin and ruin. Part 3 is about how God sent His only Son to rescue and redeem those fallen men. And Part 4 is about how God will totally and finally bring total redemption to full completion in eternity. That is the general and good old Gospel message.
HOW DOES THE GOSPEL SPEAK ABOUT RACE?
But, what I find so fascinating about the Gospel, is how robust it truly is. It not only provides the general answer to the question of redemption, but it also communicates redemption in more particular and concrete ways. For instance, the Gospel not only recounts how God created us (a general truth); it also shows how we were created as sexual, emotional, biological, rational, relational, and vocational beings (particular truths). Moreover, the Gospel not only argues that we have fallen into sin (A general statement), but it also defines what that sin is and how it has infected every facet of our being (a particular appeal).
With that, I believe the Gospel can and should be told from various angles to show how God redeems us from all various and sundry sins. So with that, this article is about how the four-part general story of the Gospel can be told through the particular lens of race, and how only Jesus can heal the sin of racism.
PART 1: CREATION (One Unique Race)
After 5 dramatic days filled with the most incredible displays of God’s creational power, God made the animals, and then He fashioned the man. He personally knelt down in the dust and intimately formed a human in His own image (Gn. 2:7). Then, He made a suitable helper for him in the woman, Eve (Gn 2:18). And finally, He commanded both of them, male and female, to be fruitful and multiply, rule and have dominion, and to spread out to the ends of the earth (Gn. 1:28). This was what it meant to be human in a general sense.
More specifically, we may understand that humans were designed as a single ethnic people. Eve was made to be the flesh of Adam’s flesh and the bone of Adam’s bone (Gn. 2:23), which meant that Adam and Eve were members of a single race; the human race. Their melanin content did not matter at all in God’s perfect design. However light or dark they were, they were human. And their mandate was to fill the world full of people so that a worldwide community would all worship the same God, living in perfect harmony with one another, without even a hint of division.
Then enters the serpent.
PART 2: FALL (A World In Ethnic Division)
When Adam and Eve rejected the Word of God and followed the serpent’s trickery, humanity fell into sin. That sin not only affected their relationship with God but also had a profound impact upon human race relations as well. For instance, the first intraracial crime in human history occurred when Adam’s son Cain killed his other son Abel. These boys were members of the same human race, both descended from the same bloodline, and yet one of them decided to perpetrate a hideous act of violence upon the other. This set a terrible precedent that still exists today, but it does not stop there.
Humans not only murdered themselves interracially (meaning members of the human race killing other humans), but soon ethnocentric discrimination, hatred, and murder began as well. After humans were judged through a global flood, the rebooted race of Noah gathered in a valley called Shinar, also known as Babel. The goal was not to be fruitful, multiply, or for man to spread out to the ends of the earth in obedience to God’s covenant commission (Gen 1:28; 9:1). Instead, their goal was to cloister together in a valley of disobedience, and in pure hubris, attempt to build a tower that reached up to the heavens; making themselves equal to God.
God, of course, vetoed their foolish plans, but He also introduced a new facet into the human race. That was ethnicity. Up to this point, all humans spoke the same language and looked the same color. Again, there is only one race of human beings. But, after the curse of Babel, humans naturally segregated into ethnolinguistic tribes who scattered all across the earth in search of places to call their own. Thus, after Babel, one human race was divided into a myriad of ethnicities. This was not the problem.
The problem was sin. And since sin affects every facet of the human condition, humans began acting out their dysfunction, discrimination, judgment, and violence along ethnic lines as well. It was not enough to perpetuate violence against another human. Sin, instead, caused humans to group and stratify themselves according to color, tribe, language, and culture. This way, evil could be inflicted upon groups and not just individuals.
While one race of people still existed (the human race), a deep distrust for other ethnic peoples settled upon the human psyche so that human genetically similar persons were never more divided. Wars and prejudices were now being enacted over skin color and complexion. Slavery became an early institutional norm in the ancient world, where one tribe would act shamefully against another, believing the other group to be subhuman.
And while examples could abound in history and in the modern world of this kind of hatred, it is essential to note that sin produces ethnocentrism among all peoples. I do not use the word “racism” here because there is only one human race. Sin does not produce fear, prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism among various races (i.e., racism); sin produces fear, prejudice, discrimination, and opposition among the many competing ethnicities that exist as one broken, fractured race of people (i.e., ethnocentrism).
This distinction is critical because racism does not really get at the problem. People hating one another inside the human race is not specific enough to account for the intentional sins that ethnically dissimilar people enact upon one another. And, racism as a term, is not robust enough to describe any meaningful cure. This is because humans will not be cured and made whole through more division; humans will be cured and made whole when they come together as one human race as God intended. That can only come about through the Gospel.
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Christopher Rufo: America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (Broadside Books, 2023). In it he has a chapter on DEI and its role in the Cultural Revolution. The chapter’s final paragraphs are just as true of Australia and other Western nations: If critical race theory should succeed as a system of government, it is easy to imagine the future: an omnipotent bureaucracy that manages transfer payments between racial castes, enforces always-shifting speech and behavior codes through bureaucratic rule, and replaces the slogan of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” with the deadening euphemism of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

There is a real cultural revolution underway. The culture wars have been fought for a number of decades now, and they present a very real threat to the West. The fact that I have over 2500 articles on this matter is but one indication that this has been a key battleground between the radical left and those who think Western civilisation is still worth preserving.
As has been explained so often now, the earlier calls for violent political revolution largely fell on deaf ears. The workers of the world did not rise up and revolt as Marx had predicted. So later Marxists determined that internal evolution through the taking over of the institutions would be the way to achieve what external armed revolution could not.
So now we have the whole gamut of critical race theory, wokism, political correctness, intersectionality, tribalism, victim politics and the like being pushed throughout the West. And by targeting all the major institutions of power and influence – the schools, the media, law, politics, and even the churches – it has been largely quite successful.
All this is part of the attempt by the revolutionary left to remake the West in its own image, and to undermine all things they consider to be toxic and counterrevolutionary. Everything must go, but by using internal subversion and upheaval, much of what is being done can be presented in platitudes and euphemisms.
Consider DEI for example. It sounds pretty good, right? Who is not in favour of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? Of course, it all depends on what is meant by these terms. Kamala and the Dems in America, and Albo and Labor in Australia for example are constantly using these words. But what they mean by them is not what most of us mean.
The examples of DEI are everywhere to be found, sometimes with really quite tragic consequences. One of the most recent and egregious cases in point almost cost Donald Trump his life. The utter bungling and failures of the US Secret Service to protect the former President at his rally in Butler, PA some 12 weeks ago showed the whole world just how dangerous DEI can be.
Sure, it was not the only reason for this colossal fail by those meant to be protecting Trump, but it was a major component nonetheless. Recall what was the main priority of the then head of the SS, Kimberley Cheatle. DEI was a consuming passion of hers, and her stated goal was to have at least 30 per cent of all personnel female.
Now in many areas, it does not matter if 90 per cent of your workers are female, be it flipping burgers or developing software. But when it comes to protecting the leaders of a nation, it is not quotas that we need, but those who are fully qualified. Merit and not mere numbers is what matters. Many women can fit the bill here, but when the quite short female agents could not even properly protect Trump (he is 6’ 3” after all), then DEI should be left out, and those who are qualified should be the primary consideration.
But that is just one example of many. Hiring people simply to fill quotas is a recipe for disaster. I have written on this matter often. In one such piece I quoted a woman – yes, a woman – who put it this way:
Quotas suck. Women will only be equal when there isn’t an artificial incentive for women to be promoted. If management staffing decisions are made with a frame of ‘we don’t have enough women so we should pick a woman’ then how can a woman ever be respected in that position? If quotas exist, how will women ever be considered worthy of their roles, deserving of them and equal to the task, rather than equal to the quota? https://billmuehlenberg.com/2011/03/09/women-quotas-and-affirmative-action/
Of course it is not just women we are talking about here, but Blacks and others. The noted Black American economist Thomas Sowell has written numerous works on this. Here is just one quote – from his important book Race and Economics:
“Perhaps the greatest dilemma in attempts to raise ethnic minority income is that those methods which have historically proved successful—self-reliance, work skills, education, business experience—are all slow developing, while those methods which are more direct and immediate—job quotas, charity, subsidies, preferential treatment—tend to undermine self-reliance and pride of achievement in the long run.”
And he of course has more recently written on DEI as well.
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Prayer is not a side issue. A nice panacea for us when we’re in trouble. A little mantra we chant to make us feel better. Prayer connects us to the God of heaven and can thus do anything God can do. It is not “A” work; it is “THE” work of the believer. We are called to pray about everything; to pray without ceasing. It is our foundational activity.

If God is God, then there are things He values. Some things are important to Him, while others have no meaning or can even be offensive.
God mentions prayer over 650 times in the Scriptures. So, how important are our prayers?
A Sobering Silence
In the great revelation of things to come given to John, there is a stunning period of total silence in heaven.
When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. (Revelation 8:1)
What could be so important that all of heaven stops in dead silence? Reading ahead, we see that the mighty final judgments of God were about to be hurled upon the earth for its wickedness. These judgments will be a time of incredible noise and tumult. But preceding these judgments, there is total silence brought about by one thing.
Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand. (Revelation 8:3-4)
All of heaven stops for one thing: the prayers of all the saints. Our prayers silence heaven. There are many interpretations of what this heavenly pause means, but this much should be easily understood:
Prayer is important to God.
He created us in His image to rule with Him.
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