Today on Summit Life, Pastor J.D. Greer talks about unity.

Our ethnic identities and our cultures are beautiful things.

They are created by God like a many-sided diamond to reflect his glory.

But when they become our primary distinguishing

identity, they always cause division. When we become Christians, our

cultural distinctives do not go away.

They just become a lot less important. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. I'm your host Molly Bidevich and we are so glad that you're back with us for another day of solid biblical

teaching here on the program. You know if you turn on the news these days or

browse through social media for a minute it'll be pretty obvious that we're living in some

unprecedented and turbulent times. Emotions run high over issues like politics,

race relations, and so many different hot topics that it can be hard to keep up.

Our world seems so divided and quite frankly angry.

And unfortunately that same attitude can often creep into our churches ever so subtly.

Today, Pastor J.D. challenges us to pursue unity for the sake of the gospel message,

because that kind of unity says a lot about the God we serve as a watching world

looks on. Pastor JD titled this message freed to unite so let's turn to

Galatians chapter 2.

Whenever cultures come together in close proximity, such as in a church like here.

Inevitably, there's going to be some misunderstanding or some confusion or even some

conflict not the least of which occurs around language. I was with a Ukrainian church

pastor who told me that he had visited the United States once and he was actually right here to

Raleigh and he didn't speak any English or he's just learning to speak English and he said I

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