To Uphold Scriptural Teaching of the Church as One Chosen Generation in Spite of Existence of Various Earthly Races

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To Uphold Scriptural Teaching  
of the Church as One Chosen Generation  
in Spite of Existence of Various Earthly Races 
WHEREAS, The word race can broadly be used to refer to the 
entire human race, all of whom are descended from Adam and Eve 
(“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the 
mother of all living,” Gen. 3:20 NKJV); and 
WHEREAS, The word race has also come to refer to various 
bloodlines or lineages, which the Scriptures acknowledge (“And He 
has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the 
face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and 
the boundaries of their dwellings,” Acts 17:26 NKJV; see also 
Genesis 10; Deut. 18:9–14; Acts 2:5–12); and 
WHEREAS, The apostle Peter uses the language of Isaiah, “my 
chosen people” (Isaiah 43:20; 65:22), in 1 Peter 2:9, to speak of the 
Church as a people not in reference to a single earthly race but rather 
to the chosen people of God, the sons of Abraham by faith; and 
WHEREAS, As those of the Church, the chosen generation, we are 
given to proclaim not the doctrines of the world, but rather the 
words of the prophets and apostles that proclaim Jesus Christ 
crucified for all nations; therefore be it 
Resolved, That we reject any racism in the Church — that is, 
excluding another from the Body of Christ or hating a brother in 
Christ because of his race (1 John 3:15; Matt. 5:21–22), deeming a 
neighbor as subhuman because of his race (Gen. 1:27; Prov. 
14:21)— because these acts break the Fifth Commandment; and be 
it further 
Resolved, That we recognize and affirm our Lord’s promise to 
the Church that we are a “chosen lineage” or “chosen generation” 
(1 Peter 2:9 NKJV), which is the lineage of all those called into the 
promise; and be it further 
Resolved
, That we rejoice that as the Church, the lineage of the 
promise, we are given to “proclaim the excellencies of him who 
called [us] out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9), a 
proclamation to be proclaimed to all nations (Matt. 28:16–20); and 
be it further 
Resolved, That we affirm that the Church, with the hope and the 
prayer that the Lord restore him to the Church, 
the chosen lineage 
of the promise , denounces and calls to repentance anyone who 
excludes another from the Body of Christ, hates a brother in Christ 
because of his race, or deems a neighbor as subhuman because of 
his race; and be it finally 
Resolved, That the Wyoming District in convention memorialize 
the Synod to affirm that the Church denounces anyone who 
excludes another from the Body of Christ, hates a brother in Christ 
because of his race, or deems a neighbor as subhuman because of 
his race and that they be called to repentance with the hope and the 
prayer that the Lord restore them to the Church, the chosen lineage 
of the promise. 
Wyoming District 
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