No Distinction

The lectionary reading from Acts a couple of Sunday ago was from chapter 11:1-18.  Reading it, this part of a verse caught my eye:  "The Spirit told me to go with them and not to make a distinction between them and us."

That verse caught my eye because I feel as if all we do today is "make a distinction between them and us."  Distinctions based on color, gender, political viewpoints, religious beliefs, neighborhoods, income, fashion, education, sexual orientation - them and us.

Don't you think it dehumanizes us? When we make those distinctions, it steals something from us.  Both of us.

How do we stop?