Our problem is we want the cross to adjust the history background, race, and culture.

And so we keep this thing going.

But Dr. Tony Evans says it doesn't work that way.

So we end up with divisions both in society and in the church.

And whenever Christians allow race and culture and class to get in the way of the truth of God. We are messing with the gospel. This is the

alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Prejudice takes practice. And Dr. Evans says most of us have been training in it since childhood. Unlearning prejudice

isn't easy, but it is possible. As background for today's message, Dr. Evans makes this important point.

There needs to be a call, first of all, to the Christian community, but even broader, to understand

God's perspective on race and culture, and to begin to respond to that perspective rather than all the opinions of men.

God created the races. He had an intent for it. He has explained how he wants the races to work and to work together, and that's what we should be promoting.

And so these messages are designed to call

attention to God's solution for the current racial crisis our nation is experiencing.

Well, today we're going to look at exactly what Jesus has to say about race and culture,

and now things get changed when he gets involved. Let's get started.

When I wrote the book Oneness Embraced to deal with the issue of race from a biblical

perspective, it was born out of the fact that this issue keeps popping up. It just doesn't go

away. It lays just beneath the surface.

And any little thing can trigger it.

And it can become a big thing.

And when I was writing the book and studying the scriptures in relationship to this, it was

apparent to me that the central thing that was missing was our common commitment to the advancement of

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