today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Our goal is not the elimination of racism.

It's the achievement of diversification.

People feel like, oh, I'm not a racist.

So I'm totally good on this.

God's goal is not the elimination of racism, not just the elimination of racism.

He didn't want you to stop being a racist, he wants you to be integrated in the church with people of various cultures. Welcome to

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to summit life with J.D. Grieer, as always. I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

Have you ever looked really closely at a beautiful tapestry?

They are beautiful works of art that often date back to as early as the third century

BC. They are formed by weaving together different colored threads to create a

complex and colorful picture. And today on Summit Life, Pastor J.D. Greer explains that the church should

look like a tapestry, making up a body of believers that is not only

colorful but complex and culturally integrated.

We're continuing our series titled Sent and today's teaching is called

standing in God's way of racial integration.

Pastor JD is teaching from the Book of Acts, chapters 10 and 11, so let's join him there.

Are you or I standing in God's way of culturally integrating his church.

I'm gonna give you three things.

Why cultural integration is important.

Then secondly, why it is so difficult, and then thirdly, I would like to offer some meager

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