Bridge Builders
Disunity is everywhere. Our culture builds chasms of bitterness and hurt between people, groups, families, and churches. But as believers we are called to be peacemakers in a world of conflict. Join us as we learn about what it means to mend relationships and build bridges together.
Breaking Barriers – February 19, 2023
One in Christ
Ephesians 2:11-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
One in Christ
11 So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth,[a] called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— 12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us, 15 abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both to God in one body[b] through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.[c] 17 So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near, 18 for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.