Get the math right
Don’t divide when you’re trying to multiply. There is nothing more important than sharing the gospel with the world. Let me say that again. There is nothing more important than sharing the gospel with the world. NOTHING.
So, why then do we let our differences drive the bus? Don’t get me wrong. I realize that many differences are born out of a genuine desire to know, understand, and teach the truth. I am not saying that we can’t differ in our interpretation of the Bible, but back to math for just a second, the difference is defined as the result of a subtraction problem. So, why would we highlight our differences and diminish—subtract from—the common purpose we share in reaching the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Unity, built upon love, puts God’s wisdom on display for all of creation to see. Every time we allow division to enter the conversation, we create another barrier to belief.
In the following verses, Paul was specifically talking about how God was bringing together the Jews and the Gentiles, but I believe the principle applies to us today. After all, to bring together Jews and Gentiles God would unite the whole world. That’s us!
So, why then do we let our differences drive the bus? Don’t get me wrong. I realize that many differences are born out of a genuine desire to know, understand, and teach the truth. I am not saying that we can’t differ in our interpretation of the Bible, but back to math for just a second, the difference is defined as the result of a subtraction problem. So, why would we highlight our differences and diminish—subtract from—the common purpose we share in reaching the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Unity, built upon love, puts God’s wisdom on display for all of creation to see. Every time we allow division to enter the conversation, we create another barrier to belief.
In the following verses, Paul was specifically talking about how God was bringing together the Jews and the Gentiles, but I believe the principle applies to us today. After all, to bring together Jews and Gentiles God would unite the whole world. That’s us!
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For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups. Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. He brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and peace to the Jews who were near. Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.
-Ephesians 2:14-22 (NLT)
-Ephesians 2:14-22 (NLT)
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