people of Israel were His chosen people, He intended to spread the tent far and wide—that He intended to make, out of many peoples, one family of God. I’ll suggest that issues of justice, diversity, and reconciliation are not extra add-ons that the church can opt out of as a matter of personal preference. They are an essential part of the gospel. The gospel was first delivered to a multicultural first-century audience (see Acts 2). And the expectation since then has been that it would be distributed and