DIFFERENT BUT NOT DIVIDED: PRACTICING A THIRD WAY
BEGINS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
5:30 PM MEAL BEGINS
6:10 PM STUDY BEGINS
FELLOWSHIP HALL
“Different But Not Divided: Practicing a Third Way.” A Six-Week Study led by Senior Pastor, Ben Devoid, and Associate Pastor, Peggy Finch.
Churches are closing every day. Beautiful, important communities that are desperately needed in a world thirsty for Love and Light, turn off the lights and close their doors. Often it is at the end of a painful journey that began with a disagreement, maybe over the meaning and intention of scripture, or culturally divisive issues, or it could just be about who gets to pick the color of carpet. When we love our theology more than our brothers and sisters we are usually left with only two options:
- Create increasingly larger, theologically monolithic and homogeneous churches, or
- Disintegrate, fracture and eventually close the doors and lose relationship with each other.
There is a Third Way—where, instead of fighting for our positions or fleeing for the safe haven of a group that looks, thinks, and believes like us, we live in the tension of our difference.
We are different, not divided.
It is not for the faint of heart, or those who have prioritized It is not for the faint of heart, or those who have prioritized efficiency over relationships. But it is an absolute requirement if you dream of a faith community that is zealous to live out the dream and prayer of Jesus that we be unified and one body.
