Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always for you, because of God’s grace that was given to you in Christ Jesus. That is, you were made rich through him in everything: in all your communication and every kind of knowledge, in the same way that the testimony about Christ was confirmed with you. The result is that you aren’t missing any spiritual gift while you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also confirm your testimony about Christ until the end so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, and you were called by him to partnership with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Now I encourage you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: Agree with each other and don’t be divided into rival groups. Instead, be restored with the same mind and the same purpose. My brothers and sisters, Chloe’s people gave me some information about you, that you’re fighting with each other. What I mean is this: that each one of you says, “I belong to Paul,” “I belong to Apollos,” “I belong to Cephas,” “I belong to Christ.” Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you, or were you baptized in Paul’s name? Thank God that I didn’t baptize any of you, except Crispus and Gaius, so that nobody can say that you were baptized in my name! Oh, I baptized the house of Stephanas too. Otherwise, I don’t know if I baptized anyone else. Christ didn’t send me to baptize but to preach the good news. And Christ didn’t send me to preach the good news with clever words so that Christ’s cross won’t be emptied of its meaning. (1 Corinthians 1:3-17, CEB)
Agree with one another and don’t be divided into rival groups. Instead, be restored with the same mind and purpose.
I wonder about this as we are headed into the next four years with an administration in the United States that does not see the humanity of some people and will actively work to make them hide who they are to live. Christ came to show us how to love and lift those held down and neglected.
We can not be divided in the understanding that all people are part of the Imago Dei. All people as God created them, not as anyone else is comfortable with them being, but as they are.
If we can not agree on that, then we will be divided, but love will win.
We need to preach the good news of the love of God not with clever words so that the cross is emptied of its meaning, but in a way that shows divisions are wrong and to live love.
Live love and be light and show God’s love for all.
Loving People. Loving God.
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