Within months of Jesus’ crucifixion, the earliest Christians had begun forming relationships that crossed ethnic, religious, cultural and class boundaries in ways the world had never seen before. This archived sermon from 2012 asks what the earliest generation of Christians understand about the cross that made radically diverse relationships spring up in their lives? And are the things they understood still true today?

Defining Moments

Grace Downtown is an inwardly growing, outwardly serving church community in Downtown Washington, DC. Each week, we will share the latest sermon from Grace Downtown plus a second recording from the Grace Downtown archives, which include classes, events and sermons from throughout Grace Downtown's history.

Grace Downtown is part of Grace DC, one church made up of a network of congregations serving and worshiping throughout Washington, DC.