In one accord? All in agreement say “aye.” “Nay,” the same.

Most congregations agree on most matters and then comes a season where there are some “nays.”

The early first century church was no different nor has it been for over 2000 years. But, still the church persists. And serves. And worships God. Paul and the other epistle writers reveal both the unity and diversity of the congregations in the early years of the Christian Faith. Jews and Gentiles had to learn how to eat together (literally) and Romans and Greeks, slave and free, male and female had to love one another so as to be one “Body of Christ,” the Church.

Something we have to grow into in each generation it seems! The mark of a true church may be in how lovingly it agrees to disagree. Now that has to be the work of the Spirit! And that may be the one accord we can hope for. Love.

This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday and we praise the Holy Spirit and our being “one in the Spirit” when we are at our best in “being the church!” Whether you come in a Honda or in a Ford or in a Dodge let us pray we are in “one accord!”

Blessings!

Pastor Barry