One Race, One BloodExemplo

In Genesis, we meet Abraham, the faithful servant whom God would use to reset mankind’s priorities and bring the world back into fellowship with Him. When we meet him, Abraham is a fallen person just like everyone else, but he’s also a committed believer. Through his faith, he would become a “friend of God” (James 2:23). 

In a time of faithlessness, Abraham believes in God. And his belief becomes the cornerstone of Scripture. He becomes the, of our faith! He becomes the seed through which God will bring people from all nations—of all ethnos—back together. God did not promise Abraham that He would make from him a great race but a great nation. It was God’s intention all along to bring forth a nation that could reunite all nations into one.

There is another truth in setting the stories of Babel and Abraham side by side.  It is the narrative theme of the spiritual journey. Our natural preference is to stay home, comfortable in our own spirituality. God calls us each on a journey, an Abrahamic journey. It doesn’t necessarily mean a geographical journey, but it will always mean a spiritual journey of the heart. It will mean leaving the familiar, traveling in discomfort but being pushed to place our trust in God for . . . everything.

The church in America is at a similar point in history. If we choose to stay in our Babel, our comfortable religion that is man-made and untrue, God will have no choice but to deal with us for our own good, the good of His purposes for the nations, and for His own glory. Our only choice is to get on with our Abrahamic journey into the unknown and discomfort of all that it entails. White evangelicalism must choose this transformative journey now. The call is clear. This book is just one of many ways this gospel call is being made. 

It’s time to respond, especially our leadership who should be in tune with God, seizing the moment as they serve as undershepherds of His people. Some are taking their congregations or their denominations on the journey, and they should be applauded. The majority, however, are camping out in Babel.