Third, as a pastor of a local church, I am responsible to shepherd the flock of God where he has made me an overseer. These are the people who are bought with Jesus’s blood (Acts 20:28). Unbelievers cannot pursue Jesus-exalting racial diversity and harmony. They pursue another kind. It is better than race wars; but it is not what Jesus died to bring about. The church is the assembly of those in whom the gospel has taken root. Therefore, it is the group where the
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