Break the Bread of Belonging (7/2/2016)

A sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Randle R. (Rick) Mixon
First Baptist Church, Palo Alto, CA

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Texts: Ruth 1:1-18; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Refugee – “a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, natural disaster, or persecution (because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or holding a political opinion).” Immigrant – “a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Immigrants are motivated to leave their former countries of citizenship, or habitual residence, for a variety of reasons, including a lack of local access to resources, a desire for economic prosperity, to find or engage in paid work, to better their standard of living, family reunification, retirement, climate or environmentally induced migration, exile, escape from prejudice, conflict or natural disaster, or simply the wish to change one’s quality of life.” Stranger – “a person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar.”