Ephesians 2:14-16

“[Christ] is our peace, who united [Jews and Gentiles] and tore down the wall [between the court of Gentiles and the Jewish quarters in the temple at Jerusalem]. He abolished in his flesh [the source of] enmity between them, that is, the Law made up of commandments as ordinances. He did it to create in himself from the two a new united humankind, so making peace. He did it to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity that way.”

By being the One that all people commit to, all divisions among people should disappear, and we are obliged, as much as lies in us, to make that happen; that is to say, what is true in principle it’s our job to make real in fact. Taking these emblems of his body and blood pledges us to that endeavor as ministers of peace.