We’re the Same Family

Well, we are moving our way through the summer. I hope you have had a time away, and if not it is coming soon. Linda and I were able to attend her family’s reunion in North Dakota. It was a real treat to see some of her family that she hadn’t seen for a long time and some cousins she had never met.

I got to thinking about the church. Our theology tells us that in Jesus we all share the same inheritance, therefore in our baptism we are all part of the same family.

I remember sitting at the horseshoe tournament at the reunion listening to some opinions about our world and even our God, and thinking, I am not sure I agree with that.

I respect it, but I don’t agree with it. Did that make me or that person any less part of the family? NO, it did not.

We live in trying times politically and economically. Life is changing faster than any of us would like to affirm, and we are asked to take our faith and make sense of this ever changing and challenging world. I believe that God gives us the community of faith, as a place where we can come and talk about this ever changing place, and know that we all still live in Jesus.

It is His Lordship over us that unifies us. I pray that as we journey toward this fall’s election and all that it means to our world and our nation, that as people of faith we could disagree about issues but remain united in Jesus.

After all, we are part of the same family, but what family always thinks alike?