Main Thought

Have you ever observed something great, maybe a club, a team, a church, or even started a new job, and felt intimidated to step in? Maybe you didn’t know where to start, didn’t know the rules, or weren’t sure if you’d be truly welcomed?

That’s how a lot of people feel when it comes to faith, church, and community especially across cultures. Sometimes it’s not a locked door keeping people out, it’s invisible walls. Walls that are cultural, economic, generational, or even relational things that separate us and make belonging feel difficult or delayed.

But Jesus doesn’t just open the door, He breaks down the walls that keep people from feeling separated. Through Him, we don’t just attend a church, we become part of a house that reflects Heaven, where every tribe, tongue, and story belongs. And in this house, you don’t earn your way in, you’re brought in by grace and built in with purpose.

Main Passages

12 …remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility…
- Ephesians 2:12-14

18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
- Ephesians 2:18-19

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:28

9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
- Revelation 7:9-12

Discussion Questions

1. What stands out to you in the main idea or the main verses?

2. Can you think of a time when you felt like an outsider—maybe in a new job, church, or group—and what helped you feel included?

3. What is one intentional step you can take to break down a wall or open a door for someone trying to belong but is not quite there?