[Due to to COVID19 restrictions, we are doing things a little differently at Benchley and an audio recording is not available for this lesson. However, the lesson was live-streamed on YouTube and can be watched below. -MRW]

• Colossians 3:9-15

• Genesis 1:27 – “God created man in His own image.”

  • Genesis 3:20

  • We are all part of the human race. Racism is wrong!

  • Romans 10:12-13

  • Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 2:14; 4:4-6 – Christians are to be united in Christ.

  • I John 4:20-21 – You cannot love God and hate your brother.

  • Acts 10:34-35 – God shows no partiality.

  • Acts 11:3, 17 – They had to get over the ideas they were raised with to align with God’s will.

• Romans 12:21 – “Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.”

  • Romans 12:17-21

  • The answer to sin is never more sin!

  • James 3:9-10

  • The only way we can be a positive light in this world is to start by looking in the mirror. Matthew 7:3; 15:18-20

  • No law from any human government will ever be as transformative as the law of Christ.

  • Ephesians 6:4

• I John 2:6 – “The one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.”

  • Love

    • Matthew 5:43; 22:39

  • Righteousness over popularity

    • John 4:7-9

    • Matthew 9:10

    • Luke 10:25-37

  • Forgiveness

    • Luke 22:32

    • There has to be forgiveness all around, because we have all sinned.