Question:  Dear Greg,

            I am a Christian first and a Baptist second.  However, it appears that you have fallen for the New Age teachings of the brotherhood of man.  The Bible says the last church will become weak, average and “lukewarm”.  The Laodecian church is the last church, the church of “people’s rights.”  It is a multi-racial church in defiance to the Children of Abraham—the Covenant people of Scripture.  I don’t question your Christianity.  The Laodecian Church was a Christian church—but it was a weak, average church.  I don’t intend to be mean or harsh.  Nor do I doubt your sincerity, your faith, nor your desire to serve our blessed Savior—Jesus Christ.  However, God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is as valid today as it was in the day when God called Abram and said his seed would be as the stars in heaven and as the sands upon the sea shore.

            There is a worldwide racial revolt against the people of the covenant.  In every nation the children of Abraham are under attack.  If you study the writings of the Communist Party, Gus Hall, the Black Panther Party, Eldrige Cleaver, Malcolm X and Huey Newton you would see that the breakdown of the natural and God-imposed barrier between the races was a major objective.  It has been accomplished, first through the Rabbis, then the Communist Party, the Civil Rights movement and finally the Laodecian Church .

            I could say more, but I know you are a busy man.  If you have read this far, it probably is a miracle.

            Thomas

Answer:  Dear Thomas,

            It appears that you object to what we believe about such passages as Ephesians 2:11 -22 (we are all one, regardless of race, one in Christ) and Galatians 3:28, “there is neither Jew nor Greek, etc.).  How have you come to believe that the New Testament teaching of the cross of Christ, the gospel of grace, is New Age and communist, etc.?

            You believe that the church of Laodecia is the “last church”—but that interpretation is subject to question.  Your interpretation would have virtually all, if not all Christians as Laodecian, at the Second Coming of Christ.  I don’t believe that the context of the book of Revelation supports such a view.

            You state that a multi-racial church is in defiance to the covenant people of Scripture, and that the covenant is “as valid today” as it ever was?!?  That is a bold and all-encompassing statement that needs biblical support.  If you are correct in your assertion, then you must also go to synagogue on Sabbath (Saturday), you must observe Jewish holy days according to the old covenant calendar, you must keep kosher, you must not wear clothing that has two different fabrics mixed together, you must not mar the corner of your beard, etc., etc.  You must keep the entire old covenant or none of it.

            Are you saying that Christians should not go to church with people of another race?  What is the new covenant all about then?  I could not go to church with the incarnate Lord of the universe, for he was a Jew—for I am a German-American?  What are you saying, and where, pray tell, is there instruction from our Lord to behave or believe in that way?

            God imposed barriers between the races?  Where are you getting such information?  Not from the gospel of Jesus Christ.

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht