Matthew 18 and How Evangelicals Tear Each Other To Pieces

But most Christians do recognize, I think, that when churches cannot work out their differences, it reveals something so badly structurally wrong that the rest of us are excused for thinking, "This is bullshit."  Not that other organizations don't have such critical differences too: but it reveals Christianity as a place where one works out one's preferences, not where one dwells with God.  And the more one thumps one's Bible, insisting that his preferences are not his own but God's, the more clear it becomes that the God of love, the God of preferring the other, the God of Matthew 18, in short the Christian God, is not in residence.

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