Michelle Henry

Are you with me?

Are you against me?

And he's talking about a third option.

It doesn't have to be one or this way or one or that way.

It could be about including everyone and seeing everyone through God's eyes.

And I thought it was so cool and so relevant that instead of labeling people, which this is what he talked about, is that, you know, you might say, oh, that's a homeless person or that's a black person or that's a

You know, we put these different labels on people.

And once we do that, we see them only through that lens.

We speak to them differently because of that lens.

And we feel differently about them because of that lens.

And his whole talk today was about, you know, not labeling people and instead seeing people through God's eyes as a son of God, a daughter of God, and seeing how much more alike we are than different.

And he went through this exercise where he had everybody raising their hands, you know, whether he was saying, how many people in here are right-handed or how many people are left-handed?

Showing that there's going to be differences no matter what, but then going to, how many people in this room have a heart?

How many people in this room have legs?

How many people?

The majority of us are 99% similar and only 1% different.

However, we focus on what those differences are instead of focusing on what we have in common and what is shared.

And I'll tell you, just in the hour and a half sermon that he gave today, everybody was feeling so much closer because no matter who you were sitting next to, no matter how different they looked than you or their different ethnicity or background or language, it didn't matter because we shared so much in common.

And his whole sermon was about, let's start focusing on the similarities instead of the differences.

And in the end, we are all the same.