Christians do well not to find fault with one another! There is certainly a need to be faithful to the Gospel and to be people of integrity, but the less quick to criticize within the “family”……the better.

All will stumble at some point. Name calling and finger pointing don’t help much since eventually the fallen, the stumblers will be YOU and ME!

Guidance, instruction, counsel, example, and I Corinthians 13 are the best referees in a church wrestling match! Or in public discourse!

If you are wondering what this is about, have you not heard? The Pope and presidential candidate Mr. Trump exchanged words! About being Christian! I might have worded it differently had I been either one’s advisor! Not a great example of Christian witness from either side…in my humble opinion. Maybe they will work it out in prayer and sitting at table together!

However, both our Lord and St Paul are not hesitant to speak to both people in power and to those who are “straying.” In our texts for Sunday, we will see how the Word speaks to us in our differences, diversity, and “diversions.” Let us hear and see the Lord and the Apostle at work when seeing things in others that fall short of God’s Kingdom in our midst.

Lord…. Make us One on our journey to Easter, on our journey to our Eternal Home! Let us walk together, all forgiven and forgiving.

Lenten Blessings,

Bro Barry