“For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath
broken down the middle wall of partition between
us;…” (Ephesians 2:14 KJV)
The wonderful thing about family is that
you are not expected to agree about everything under the sun. Show me a man and
wife who have never disagreed and I will show you some accomplished fibbers.
But those disagreements, pray God, do not usually destroy the unity of the
family. And so it should be with God’s family, the church. We are not expected
at all times to be unanimous or to have a consensus on every conceivable
subject. As long as we are as one on the
fundamentals and refuse to let go of one another.…
Healthy differences of opinion can help
the body to be more lively. After all, it is unity we are talking about, not
uniformity. What is needed is to respect one another’s points of view and not
to impute unworthy motives to one another
or to seek to impugn the integrity of the other.
Our maturity will be judged by how well
we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care
for one another and to cherish one another and seek the greater good for the
other.
As the church, we are set as a sign in
the world, the first fruits of the Kingdom, to demonstrate what God intends
human society to be, united in a rich diversity, to demonstrate that Christ has
indeed broken down the middle wall of partition…
-- Desmond Tutu in The Rainbow People of God
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