Don't confuse one-ness in worship with one-ness in expression
So a fellow brother sparked a Facebook thread on "Law vs Grace" or something like that. Felt inspired to share a recent revelation.
While we're on this all important topic, let me digress with a little revelation I had just the other day.
A Jehovah Witness guy came knocking on my door. He was very ernest about sharing the Word of God. Upon discovering that I'm a fellow Christian from another "denomination", he flipped to verses in NT Bible about literally going from door to door to spread the Good News.
Felt prompted by the Lord to share with him what Ravi Zaccharias said when atheistic students confronted him with the tough question on "if God exist why would there be so many different denomination?".
"Don't confuse one-ness in worship with one-ness in expression." was his reply.
So I said,
"I thank you brother for making huge sacrifice in going door to door witnessing Christ. It's the expression of your love towards Jesus and I honor you for that. I belief God has placed in your heart a way to express your worship that'll be central to your purpose and that's gonna be different from another person. The fact that we have so many different churches and denominations is a manifestation of the gathering of these expressions."
He had nothing much to say but I think he got the point. Regretted not inviting him for a drink. That's the least I could do to show kindness to my fellow brother!
While we're on this all important topic, let me digress with a little revelation I had just the other day.
A Jehovah Witness guy came knocking on my door. He was very ernest about sharing the Word of God. Upon discovering that I'm a fellow Christian from another "denomination", he flipped to verses in NT Bible about literally going from door to door to spread the Good News.
Felt prompted by the Lord to share with him what Ravi Zaccharias said when atheistic students confronted him with the tough question on "if God exist why would there be so many different denomination?".
"Don't confuse one-ness in worship with one-ness in expression." was his reply.
So I said,
"I thank you brother for making huge sacrifice in going door to door witnessing Christ. It's the expression of your love towards Jesus and I honor you for that. I belief God has placed in your heart a way to express your worship that'll be central to your purpose and that's gonna be different from another person. The fact that we have so many different churches and denominations is a manifestation of the gathering of these expressions."
He had nothing much to say but I think he got the point. Regretted not inviting him for a drink. That's the least I could do to show kindness to my fellow brother!

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