Visualize the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Gentiles were restricted to the outer court. Jewish women could go to the Court of Women. Jewish men could take the next step closer to the altar. The architecture taught that access to God was restricted to free, Jewish, male priests. In Galatians, Paul explains that Jesus bulldozed the floor plan. Notice that he transitions from "Jew or Greek" and "slave or free" to "male and female." Why? It's a direct quote from Genesis 1:27, where God created us in his image. In the Temple, gender was a barrier. But in the church, we're fulfilling the Garden Promise. For decades, I thought that the unfortunate but "tough truth" was that only men could lead churches and homes. But God kept inviting me to meditate on this passage. As I considered the scandal Paul's words created in the first century, I had to ask myself: If priestly robes indicate who can lead God's people, what does it mean if every Christian is clothed with Christ? Likewise, imagine the shock that Jewish men felt when Paul explained that both Gentiles and women are full heirs of God's promise to Abraham. We're all tempted to place people beneath ourselves to prop ourselves up. But now that Christ has demolished our social hierarchies, it violates the logic of the gospel to recreate them. It's exhausting to manage our status by excluding others. Jesus invites us to see that we are complete in his love, and free to love one another as fully equal members of his family.