| Who are you?
What are you?
What do you do?
We spend a lot of our time asking these questions of ourselves and each other. Whether we voice them out loud or try to figure out the answers in more covert ways, our curiosities reveal themselves—we want to know who others really are, and we want to know who we, ourselves, are too.
In “What Is a Mixed Christian?” Chandra Crane asks these who am I? questions specifically as a multiethnic Christian.
“When we frame the question through Jesus, we bring things back into their proper, healthy order,” Crane writes. “Both identities are important, but one is primary. Our ethnicity matters because Jesus is leading us in it. Our ethnicity is beautiful and purposeful because it reflects God and his kingdom. It doesn’t get erased in the new creation; it flourishes in the new heavens and the new earth. Our ethnicity isn’t the most defining part of us, but it points back to Christ.”
As we think about who we and others are in Christ, may we delight in God’s intentional, beautiful creation of ethnic diversity. |
