The church is filled with lots of dangerously different people.
There are rich and poor, old and young, male and female.
We have families with fifteen children and fifty-year-old unmarrieds.
There are Republicans and Democrats, executives and janitors, athletes,
artists, and teachers. And the differences get even deeper — American,
African, Asian, Latin, and Middle Eastern.
Not to mention our personalities — outgoing and shy, bold and meek,
patient and ambitious, emotional and unaffected, rational and
relational. There’s no mystery why the Bible has so much to say about
stress, conflict, and reconciliation between believers. How could there not be friction in a family like ours? Continue at Marshall Segal
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