Christianity crosses every kind of barrier: political, religious, ethnic, economic, geographic. This struck me for the first time 30 years ago, during the last winter of the war in Bosnia. I was on my way to Sarajevo and made a stop for supper with a Croatian friend who served as pastor for a little church near the front. I was in the middle of a vast killing field in which the ethnic cleansing of Bosnians, Croats and Serbs had displaced two million and killed 100,000.
Over dinner the Croatian pastor introduced me to two families, newer members of his congregation. One couple was Serbian, the other Bosnian. Around the table they told me how the Gospel had reconciled them to God and, therefore, to each other. Each had family and friends murdered or homes destroyed by the ethnic groups of the others around the table. Now they were brothers and sisters in Christ. Each was still a Croat, Serb or Bosnian, but they were also, in a real sense, family.
In the decades since, I’ve seen this reality again and again. It’s happening all the time, everywhere on the globe.
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Mr. Keesee is founder of Frontline Missions International and co-author of “From the Rising of the Sun: A Journey of Worship Around the World.”
This article first appeared in the November 28, 2025, print edition of the Wall Street Journal as 'Worshiping God at the Ends of the Earth'. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.