Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Grace for your spirit November 7, 2013

Grace for your spirit
Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.  I Peter 2:12

We were always taught there are two kinds of people.  Jews and those who were not Jews called Gentiles. The word Gentile when used in the Bible means that and much more.  The Jews believed it represented those without God, but it is much broader.  Heathens, pagan, idolaters, atheists, infidels, non-believers, miscreants, polytheists are also without God.  When someone asks us if we are Jew or Gentile, the answer is neither.  The 3rd race is Christian.  Not Jew, but certainly not Gentile without God.  Introducing ourselves as the 3rd race, will lead our conversation straight to Jesus and glorifying God.

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