All On The Table

Likely for many of us, one or more of those words or phrases got you at least a LITTLE bit tense. This conversation could get out of hand. What we see modeled for us and what each of us has likely even participated in, is that if we enter those conversations then someone will have to win and someone will have to lose. Likely, the relationship itself will have some scars at best and fracture at worst.

But, here is the question, can Christians disagree on those topics, as well as topics not listed, and still remain a family of faith? Often we’ll say, yes, but what we expect then is we simply don’t discuss anything that we might possibly disagree about. We ignore disagreements and pretend they don’t exist. Or we minimalize the freedom of others to have their own views. Is there a better way?

This is a Unity in Christ Alone event, a reminder that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is our hope, and that after that we have the safety and freedom to discuss things, to struggle together, to reason together, even to **gasp** DISAGREE together, and to come back together for the purpose of the gospel.

We are asking you to place all your struggles on the table, all your doubts, all your disagreements, all of your politics, theology, opinion, argument… all of it on the table. And to leave it, pick up communion, and find unity in a divided and divisive world. Not the cheap unity of complete uniformity, or the easy unity of ignoring difference, but the costly and wonderful unity found in the body and the blood of Jesus Christ.