CACM exists to abolish racial division within the church by being a voice of the gospel in the wilderness of man centered and destructive narratives of what unity looks like and how it is achieved. 

 

The history of our country and the present dynamics of division show that the message of unity has been coopted by the world and the church is, sadly following suit. Part of this is mere exhaustion, wearied by what seems to be inevitable. Another aspect, however, is the yielding of the centrality of the cross to one way in which unity can take place. We see this played out in the politicization of Christianity and in the blending of the gospel with social narratives. Christians on either side of this departure do not deny Christ. Each hold out that He is their Lord and Savior. However, because they opt out of the supremacy Christ, refusing to hold Him as above culture, they actively dethrone Him. Clearly none can dethrone the living Lord, but in their actions, living and teaching, they present Him as less than He is.

 

CACM is a ministry that began in 2018 but was born out of a passion the Lord gave Sherard, at the age of 19, to be a conduit of the message of the cross as the achievement of racial unity. Since then he has sought to champion this message as a central fruit of the cross. Nearly 25 years ago he began writing and equipping Christians in how to understand and navigate this issues of division within the church. This led him to impact churches across the country and in other countries as well. In 2005 he wrote a manuscript that he did not publish until 2016. That manuscript is his book  Christ Above Culture: A gospel centered vision for racial harmony." 

 

The task of abolishing racial division within the church is a tall, perhaps impossible task. Yet, at the heart of this ministry is the weighted burden to push back the kingdom of darkness and division that is crippling so many churches and, as a result, servers as a reason many mock the church and Christ. Nothing short of the glory of God is at the heart of displayed and lived out unity in the church and, therefore, nothing matters more than the unity of God's people. This is the witness of who Jesus is.  Jesus taught

 

"The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know

that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me" (John 17:22–23)

 

At the heart of this burden and call are the words of the Apostle Paul

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"But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only

I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus,

to testify to the gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24)

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