Diversity in Unity

One of the wonders of this table is that it testifies about everything. It is a single light that enlightens every corner of the world. One of those dark corners is the topic of diversity and unity. The well worn leftist phrase, “Diversity is our strength” is dumb enough on its face. But it is the kind of statement that can make conservatives overreact and say, “Unity is the ultimate thing.” But surely that is silly like the former. You can be unified in evil. Those men at Babel had one language, one aim, and their unity was rotten to the core.

This table speaks to the unique Christian witness concerning diversity and unity, which is namely diversity in unity. This is true of our Creator: God is three in one and one in three. So it is with this table. All nations stream to it. All nations (there is diversity) stream to it, one table (there is unity). The Jews and Gentiles reach into the same dish. They partake of the same bread, the one wine. So it is with black and white, rich and poor, male and female, old and young, they all come to one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one table.

Paul said that as you were baptized into Christ, you put on Christ. So there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ (Galatians 3:28). Paul did not mean that Christian women cease to be female or that men cease to be men. Jews did not stop being Jews and Greeks did not stop being Greeks. But these diversities were plunged into one man at baptism and the one man is poured into them at this table. The death of Christ puts an end to all carnal divisions and it puts an end to all carnal unities. And it grafts the many children of Adam into one man better than us all. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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