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how can we identify and challenge 'middle walls of partition' in our modern societies?

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Ephesians 2:14-16

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, so making peace; and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.

The Apostle Paul is writing to followers of Jesus in Ephesus (a major city in Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey) around the first century CE. He's explaining how God's plan in Jesus brings together different groups of people, specifically addressing the historic division between Jewish and non-Jewish people.

What unseen divisions in your daily life or community might be acting as 'middle walls of partition'?

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  • Galatians 3:28

    This passage declares that in Christ, traditional social and religious distinctions are overcome.

  • Acts 10:28

    Peter's vision and visit to Cornelius illustrate the breaking down of Jewish-Gentile dietary and social barriers.

  • Colossians 3:11

    This verse reinforces the idea that cultural and social identities are redefined within the new community.

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