Let us focus on what we can do

FINDING ways to stay in healthy relationship with those we don’t agree with is a perpetual problem, a problem that might feel more and more insurmountable today.

- James Gregory, Senior Pastor, Crediton Congregational Church

The New Testament contains 27 letters to everyday people trying to make sense of the life of Jesus Christ, trying to figure out how to live in the wake of his remarkable actions and words.

One of the letters is from Paul to a church he had founded in Corinth which had fallen into factionalism, its members in danger of permanently falling out with each other.

Interestingly, Paul doesn’t wade in and tell them who is right and who is wrong. He ducks those questions and instead tells them that the cause of their fall out is their immaturity.

To help them find more ‘grownup’ ways of living in their disagreements, Paul presents them with a new vision of what their life together could become.