Moving Against Tribalism

Negative ethnicity is a real pain in Africa. I cannot be sure how much damage it has caused in other African nations but i am sure of what it has done in Kenya.
Sadly, many Christians have allowed themselves to be overpowered by this strongman.

The Word of God in Ephesians 2:11-22 gives us clarity on what our position on this matter should be. From v.11-13, Paul says that before we met Christ, we belonged to our tribes, races and cultures because we were separate from God; we were not under the new Covenant written in Christ's blood. Its in his blood that we have salvation-v.13.
Verse 14-18 tells us of how the work of Christ created a new man. V.15 tells us that He abolished in His flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. The law is characteristic of leading us to make value judgments based on outward things. Just as the Jews made value judgments based on the circumcision they did with their hands, we do the same, with ethnicity as our basis. We are sinful and out of our sinfulness comes our ethnocentricity. But according to scripture, Christ has overcome this ethnocentricity by abolishing the law in the body broken for our sakes. He has made one new man, bringing all of us together under this new covenant, irrespective of age, gender, race or tribe. And we now all have access to the Father through the Holy Spirit-v18.
We are therefore one in Christ. There are no aliens or foreigners(v.20) and so i conclude that we are one tribe and not a league of several! We are being built up as one body into a holy temple, founded on Christ. That body has not Luo, Kamba, Kalenjin, Kikuyu or Somali blood. The body of Christ has the blood of Christ- shed for ALL. No exclusions are made by scripture concerning either our sinful state or our redemption through his blood-through which we claim brotherhood. May the Lord rebuke us and forgive us for being tribalists! Like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., i long for a day when we will not judge others by their tribe but their relationship with Jesus Christ.
Amen