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What Does the Bible Say About Race and Ethnicity?

November 14, 2022

Adriel Sanchez

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Cultural Engagement

What Does the Bible Say About Race and Ethnicity?

25 min

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Cultural Engagement

What Does the Bible Say About Race and Ethnicity?

25 min

Episode 1097 Show Notes

From the Show

In the New Covenant we see the promise of the gospel going out to the nations and every ethnicity. The kingdom of God is catholic—universal—it is not associated with one particular nation and ethnicity.

–Adriel Sanchez

What Does the Bible Say About Race and Ethnicity?

Questions in this Episode

  1. Should the church just focus on the gospel and ignore politics?
  2. What does the Bible say about the origin of race and different ethnicities?
  3. Why don’t Christians follow the civil laws of the Old Testament?
  4. Is getting piercings a sin?

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Adriel Sanchez

Adriel Sanchez is the pastor of North Park Presbyterian Church (PCA) in San Diego, CA. He received his theological training from Westminster Seminary California and serves as host of Core Christianity. Adriel is the author of Praying with Jesus and, most recently, Why We Worship: Experiencing Heaven on Earth at Church. He and his wife, Ysabel, have six children.

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