Key Bible Verse: Anyone who does God's will is my brother and sister and mother (Mark 3:35). Bonus Reading: John 20:17-18

I went to a football game in my hometown of Houston, Texas, back before the Houston Oilers defected to Tennessee as the Titans. They were playing the Oakland Raiders in the Astrodome. That day I was seated in the middle of the biggest bunch of loud-mouth drunks I'd ever seen at a sports event. It practically made me ashamed to be an American.

Three weeks before I'd been on a mission trip to Russia—just one month after the Soviet Union ceased to exist. I was with so many Baptists who wanted to worship in this little church building that they were holding six services on Sunday. And people were still standing outside in the snow with the windows open so they could hear the sermon. (We all had communion with a common cup. I don't think I've ever experienced such hygienic intimacy with so many people!)

I was acutely aware that I'd been more at home with my Russian brothers and sisters in Christ in the nation of our former sworn enemy than I was sitting in a football stadium about 15 blocks from the house where I grew up with people who didn't know Jesus as Savior and Lord.

Christians are blood brothers and sisters with a common Father.

—Richard Land in Real Homeland Security

My Response: Who do I feel most at home with, and why?

Adapted from Real Homeland Security (Broadman & Holman, 2004) by permission.

Prayer for the Week

Give me the love it takes, Lord Jesus, to live in harmony with the people You died for.

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