Blah Guy

Koinonia

Fellowship

‘Commoness’

These three words are synonymns.

Apply our little theological idea about the church (koinonia, our fellowship) to our current political culture.

I am convinced that until we can focus on what we ‘agree’ on in these debates, it all won’t matter. What if we had ‘agree-debates’ where the candidates were secretly only allowed to agree with one another. The debates would last for like 5 hours. With exception to a few issues, they all agree on so many things but find so many incredible ways to argue about it.

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Now, me! I believe the key to the church is the key to democracy. Having the wit and boldness to focus on all the crazy and beautiful things we rabidly agree on. Crazy thought. And yes, there will be heretics. But heretics are what make orthodoxy fun. They keep us on our toes. Instead of being afraid of the heretics, maybe we can love ‘em, and realize they make the game fun.

But as a general rule, finding what we agree on is the joy of fellowship. Yes, we believe Jesus is the Son of God (despite your interpretation of the word ’son’). Yes, we believe Jesus died and rose from the grave (despite your particular view of many issues). On and on…

And while politics may continue to focus on the foibles and factions, the church can rest assured. Rest that in Christ, there is no division whether we think so or not. We are one! The problem is that some of us think we aren’t.

Can we agree?