A piece I encourage all my brothers and sisters from New Providence Presbyterian Church in Maryville and the larger Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to prayerfully read and consider from the December 2014 issue of Presbyterians Today Magazine: When we come together in our congregations, presbyteries, and General Assembly, we aim to respond faithfully to what was given to us in Christ. But even when we deeply disagree on what such faithfulness looks like—even when our conversations halt, our positions clash, and our votes divide us—we nonetheless still stand on common ground. We still belong together, because the unity of the church is not based on the commonality of our responses, but on the fact that it is one Lord who brought us together. And this in itself, I believe, changes the conversations, because it changes what is at stake in our agreements and disagreements.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 05:05:44 +0000
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