Wednesday — One New Humanity
New Testament Scripture
Ephesians 2:15
“That he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace.”
Old Testament Scripture
Genesis 12:3
“In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Not Assimilation — Creation
Paul’s language here is breathtaking. Christ does not merely broker peace between two hostile groups. He does not supervise a ceasefire. He creates. “One new humanity.”
That is Genesis language. Creation language. New world language.
Paul is not describing improved relations. He is describing a new reality brought into existence through the cross. This is not assimilation — where one group absorbs another.
It is not erasure — where difference disappears. It is not dominance — where one culture wins. It is creation.
The church is not a coalition of reconciled factions learning to tolerate one another. It is the beginning of a renewed human family.
Something genuinely new has come into existence.
The promise to Abraham echoes here. God pledged that through him all the families of the earth would be blessed. That promise was never about one tribe elevated above others. It was about blessing flowing outward until division itself was undone.
In Christ, that promise takes visible form. If Christ creates a new humanity, then our deepest identity shifts. Paul’s favorite phrase is “in Christ.” Not in Rome. Not in Jerusalem.
In Christ.
This does not erase culture or flatten personality. Pentecost will show that difference remains. Languages are not silenced — they are Spirit-filled. But culture is no longer ultimate.
Allegiance to Jesus outruns every lesser loyalty.
That can feel destabilizing. We are accustomed to drawing confidence from ancestry, achievement, education, or ideology. Yet the gospel gently — and sometimes painfully — loosens our grip on those markers. Your truest story is no longer what separates you from others.
It is what unites you to Christ.
A Preview of the Future
Revelation paints a vision of a multitude from every tribe and language standing together before the throne. But notice something important: The future has already begun. The church is meant to look like tomorrow. When diverse believers worship together, forgive one another, and share one table, they become an early glimpse of the coming kingdom. We are not waiting for unity in heaven. We are practicing it now.
But do we really? N.T. Wright proposes somethingtha tmakes sense to me. With the advent of the printing press and the ability for the bible to be printed in many languages - the once uniform church fractured across language barriers - and then cultural reading barriers. The One church become hundres of thousands of denominations.
By the way - that word denomination - is from the root word dominion - which also means to divide. The dream of Ephesians did not stand a chance.
If we could start to see the world coalese as a multi-tribal, multi-generational, reconciled people under one Lord - the new creation - already be underway - would acclerate!
Are we getting any closer?
Prayer
Creator God,
You spoke light into darkness and brought forth life.
Now You are forming a new humanity in Christ.
Reorder our identity.
Loosen our grip on lesser loyalties.
Make our life together a foretaste of Your coming kingdom.
Amen.
New Testament Scripture
Ephesians 2:15
“That he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace.”
Old Testament Scripture
Genesis 12:3
“In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Not Assimilation — Creation
Paul’s language here is breathtaking. Christ does not merely broker peace between two hostile groups. He does not supervise a ceasefire. He creates. “One new humanity.”
That is Genesis language. Creation language. New world language.
Paul is not describing improved relations. He is describing a new reality brought into existence through the cross. This is not assimilation — where one group absorbs another.
It is not erasure — where difference disappears. It is not dominance — where one culture wins. It is creation.
The church is not a coalition of reconciled factions learning to tolerate one another. It is the beginning of a renewed human family.
Something genuinely new has come into existence.
The promise to Abraham echoes here. God pledged that through him all the families of the earth would be blessed. That promise was never about one tribe elevated above others. It was about blessing flowing outward until division itself was undone.
In Christ, that promise takes visible form. If Christ creates a new humanity, then our deepest identity shifts. Paul’s favorite phrase is “in Christ.” Not in Rome. Not in Jerusalem.
In Christ.
This does not erase culture or flatten personality. Pentecost will show that difference remains. Languages are not silenced — they are Spirit-filled. But culture is no longer ultimate.
Allegiance to Jesus outruns every lesser loyalty.
That can feel destabilizing. We are accustomed to drawing confidence from ancestry, achievement, education, or ideology. Yet the gospel gently — and sometimes painfully — loosens our grip on those markers. Your truest story is no longer what separates you from others.
It is what unites you to Christ.
A Preview of the Future
Revelation paints a vision of a multitude from every tribe and language standing together before the throne. But notice something important: The future has already begun. The church is meant to look like tomorrow. When diverse believers worship together, forgive one another, and share one table, they become an early glimpse of the coming kingdom. We are not waiting for unity in heaven. We are practicing it now.
But do we really? N.T. Wright proposes somethingtha tmakes sense to me. With the advent of the printing press and the ability for the bible to be printed in many languages - the once uniform church fractured across language barriers - and then cultural reading barriers. The One church become hundres of thousands of denominations.
By the way - that word denomination - is from the root word dominion - which also means to divide. The dream of Ephesians did not stand a chance.
If we could start to see the world coalese as a multi-tribal, multi-generational, reconciled people under one Lord - the new creation - already be underway - would acclerate!
Are we getting any closer?
Prayer
Creator God,
You spoke light into darkness and brought forth life.
Now You are forming a new humanity in Christ.
Reorder our identity.
Loosen our grip on lesser loyalties.
Make our life together a foretaste of Your coming kingdom.
Amen.
Posted in Easter Season 2026
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