In times of cultural and political divisiveness, the hope of common ground for people from all nations and walks of life can sound like an impossible dream, a naive fantasy. But this is precisely what God intended to do when He sent His Son to the cross. In the victory of our Messiah, God announces that the time has come “to gather all nations and tongues” (Is. 66:18). Jesus promises that many “will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29), but only by the narrow way of the cross.