Abstract
This chapter aims to engage the vision of the church as a distinctive people, a position presented by Clapp (1996) and other current scholarship. The recognition of the church as being central to one's identity and behavior in the world should yield a perspective and social practice that opposes and critiques a racialized society. It also discusses the way that certain biblical themes/doctrines (creation, theological anthropology, Christology, Pentecost and eschatology) are perceived in light of the church as a distinctive people and highlights two specific Christian practices (hospitality or forgiveness) that comprise the church as a culture, a way of life. These biblical themes/doctrines and Christian practices are directly significant to present ethnic/racial realities.
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