The Color of Jesus

I have a friend of a different race.  As I was considering our friendship one day, it struck me that we are the same color in Jesus.

Because there is no color in Jesus.

What Paul the Apostle said in Galatians 3:28, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus," obliterates racism and prejudice.

I've heard people argue that Jesus was one color or the other, that he was everything from black to British.  European painters made him seem European.  Most people like the idea that he looked like they do.  I don't care what color he was.  What difference would it make if Jesus were black?  What difference would it make if Jesus were British?  Could Jesus' skin color change the plan of God and the mission of church?

Anchor longs to reflect the racial diversity of Long Beach.  More than this, we long to reflect the racial diversity of heaven, for God's sake, because Jesus' kindgom will derive from every tribe and language and people and nation (Revelation 5:9-10).

It is amazing that the most enduring form of prejudice seems to be based on the wrapper humans come in: skin color.  The Bible sees two kinds of people: those who know God and those who don't.

What color was Jesus?  Red, with his blood he shed for sinners. 

We are the color of Christ.  In eternity people from all races will be one race: the people of God, and we will gather around the throne of God to worship him together.  Eternity starts now.