Jesus commissioned His followers to go and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20). All the nations, with their ethnic groups, were to be baptized, taught and discipled. It is not possible to carry out the mission of Jesus to the world while harboring notions of our own racial superiority. In the past the mission got mixed up with colonialism and mistaking westernize to evangelize. Nothing hinders our mission like the failure to respect those with whom we would share the Jesus story. That is as true in crossing the street as in crossing the ocean. If persons do not sense in us a love that comes from the Spirit of God living in us, then our spirit of superiority will stop the message of the gospel in its tracks. You will not want that on your hands when you stand before the Universal Christ.
“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8 (NASB)
