There's a lot of diversity in the human race.

We have different hair color and skin color, sure.

But we also have different languages, different ways of verbalizing meaning.

Depending on where you grew up, you were taught different values, told different stories,

faced different challenges.

Some of us are rich, some of us are poor, some are powerful, some not so much.

In the large human family spread out across this flying space rock, there is a lot of diversity.

Yet, somehow the ability of the story of Jesus, which is this biblical story, is able to speak

to every different kind of human and address their deepest questions or problems or longings

about themselves, about other people, about God, about the world.

In fact, step back and look at the impact the story of Jesus has had on this planet.

And you'll see the Jesus movement is the most culturally, ethnically diverse.

People movement that's ever happened in the human race.

And this is no accident.

The biblical story is designed this way.

It's designed to show us that we are one big human family, all of us.

And all of our wonderful diversity, we are the family of God.

The seedbed of this is the little image of God, Plum, Genesis 1.

In that poem, God says that humanity is both male and female.

And together, in our difference, is when we express who God is.

This seed of an idea planted in the biblical story continues.

The completion of my human identity consists in what can only be found in understanding,

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