Titus 3:1Remind them …   2to malign no one,to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.    
   3For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.    
   9But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.    
   10Reject a factious man after a first and second warning,    
   11knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

If we are one in Christ we will at least be united enough to avoid the behavior described above in Titus 3.  We will be of one accord; each having different gifts and callings, but peaceably agreeable with each other even when we disagree.  Izzy

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Sawczak
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I may have been guilty of stretching the Scriptural body analogy there. But if we really are going to say the same thing (even if in slightly different words), we may as well not converse.

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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:10 AM
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[Debbie] I don't agree with this either, and I think it is important. The apostles Paul and James (to go back to a previous post) ultimately believed in the same Good News, but in emphasizing different things they didn't say the same thing; they said complementary things. They certainly don't sound the same; if they did, Luther wouldn't have had doubts about the canonicity of James. And that's just it: in the same way, we here will seem to be saying quite different things at times even when our utterances fit into the same big picture. (Not that they necessarily do.) We can't use sameness as a necessary condition of rightness. To me that seems a scary direction to move in.

 

Unity presupposes diversity. A group of n identical things can never be a unit; it will always be a group of n units, however tightly and pleasingly they are arranged like bricks in a wall. In order for a number of things to be one thing, they have to be different. Hence the body image. Not only does the foot do something different from the ear, but I bet if it talked, its account of things would be different! Part of our diversity is how we experience, see, and say things. And part of faith is trusting God for one another, and relinquishing the need to "match" for security.

 

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