-PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE

-Acts 17:22-31
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He has made from
one blood every
nation of men to
dwell on all the face
of the earth.
--Acts 17:26
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Back in the 1930s, my childhood home was loving and happy, but my parents were often away. We had a joyous housekeeper named Annie.

Annie would sit in our kitchen and read books or play with toys and we liked listening to her sing and hum spirtuals and hymns. Annie's heart was full of wisdom, cheerfulness, and song.

One morning, with childish exuberance, I used a racial slur I had heard. "Oh my, No," she said, and then proceeded to pour out her heart in a gentle lecture on harm and hurt in that accompanied by a terrible sadness in her eyes. I never used that word again.

Every human being is created in the image of God--more like God than any other creature and worthy of honor. To demean that image is to wound another human being at the deepest level.

There is but one race; the human race. God "has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth" (Acts.17:26). We are of the same family, made to be cherished by one another.
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-God desires that we show respect to all people,
because everyone bears His image.

--ODB/DR