A friend recently asked me to listen to a podcast on Christian Unity by Kris Vallorton that posed the question, “Does it matter that we hold contradictory truths? Isn’t the important thing that we all have one Spirit?”
Vallorton asserted “Conformity is not Unity”. He went on to say that we don’t need to agree about doctrine because it is the Spirit that lives within us gives us unity and that same Spirit gives us various gifts in the body of Christ.
He believes that Christians should come together with their various gifts and ideas in a beautiful symphony that sings out to our God. He believes it takes all of us to understand God’s fullness.
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We Christians have confused “division”, which is a work of the flesh has divided the faith into thousands of contradictory opinions with “diversity” which embraces different gifts, cultures, styles of worship .
We can have diversity in liturgical styles and expressions of worship and different spiritual gifts. But we are called to unity what we believe and what we practice in worship. We are called to the One Faith handed down to us from Jesus to the apostles.
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