BLOGGING TOWARD SUNDAY…

You may well have missed it, but the biggest news to come out of 1988 was that every human being on this planet today is descended from one woman who lived in Africa or Asia about 300,000 years ago. Anthropologists and geneticists say they have proved it. It is a fact.

Most people, actually, seem to have missed the news (or the point!). The human race is biologically one family, but it won’t matter much if it doesn’t find its way to a reunion of the human race…and the only way to get there is through confession and forgiveness.

Several years ago, Gerald Mann, a progressive Baptist preacher, was invited to be “roasted” at a benefit to raise money for a Roman Catholic charity. When he was introduced, he made a few jokes, then said, “My mother is here this evening. Her maiden name was Foy. The Foys came to America about three hundred years ago from France.” Everyone smiled and looked at his mother.

Then he said, “Most of the Foys didn’t come to America. There were murdered in their beds by Roman Catholics because they were Huguenots. Only a few escaped. My ancestor Foy was an infant saved by his eight-year-old sister who saw her parents and siblings slaughtered.”

The place was deathly quiet. Then he said, “I’m here tonight to make a statement: Those days are gone and best forgotten. Out being here this evening is a testimony to God’s intention to eventually make us all one human family.” (Story from Gerald Mann)

If we lived our lives with that in mind, that reunion would come much sooner than later. Let’s work for it!

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