"26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
It is quite easy to see people from other backgrounds as 'strange' because they don't behave in the same ways we do. Although there is nothing terribly wrong with our own culture or tradition, we should be careful when it gets in the way of us seeing other Christians from other places as equal brothers and sisters.
For a long time the Jews thought they were the chosen people of God because he had revealed himself to them. They were shocked when they realised God wanted EVERYONE to know him - Jews, Gentiles - including the very immoral Greeks and Romans. It was a difficult to them that Greeks and Jews were considered equal before God.
So what can we learn from this? Leave everything behind in your culture that prevents you from seeing a Christian from somewhere else, as a brother or sister.
We are now all children of Abraham, and are blessed by God so that we can in turn bless others.
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