ONE IN CHRIST

Lectionary passage: Galatians 3:26-29 - ²⁶for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. ²⁷As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.

“Children of God through faith in Christ,                                    
children of God,” declared Paul.
Color and class and clan do not
matter to Jesus at all.

Children baptized in Christ and clothed
with Christ, in whom we are one.
Heirs of God’s pledge to Abraham,
for we belong to God’s Son.

There’s neither Jew nor Greek in Christ,
neither is there slave or free,
neither female nor male in Christ —
  one in the Spirit are we.