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A Plea: Please Read



Oh my brothers and sisters..

When will it end? When will we cease complaining, condemning, and criticizing each other? When will we return to love? The secular world is becoming more compassionate and Christ-like than us! If this infighting does not stop, our witness is going to be wasted. We need unity, but instead we choose mutiny. We would rather be right about our doctrines and differences than be Light to a broken world. We would rather squabble over intellectual and theological concepts than show each other compassion and care. We would rather argue about creeds than congregate together and be Christ to one another.

Correction and conviction are not to be abandoned. But they must come from love. It should be concern and compassion that compels us to correct, not condemnation and cruel self righteousness. We are a family, the Church. Wither you are Catholic or Protestant, wither you are black or white, wither you are American or African, Greek or Scythian, male or female, we are one in Christ.

Please brothers and sisters, as Scott Stapp says in his song, "Learn to Love Again." Please I implore you, stop this infighting! We are meant to be one, as Jesus and the Father are one. We were meant to have such love for each other that the unbeliever would take notice. We are not political parties, we are people. We are Children of Christ, not champions of some man's cause.

If we do not put aside the squabbling, our faith will be in flames. Our witness will diminish and all the blood of martyrs will have been in vain. God wanted a family, he sacrificed everything to ensure we would be saved and able to connect with Him. Now, his very children fight one another. Oh the agony he must have felt during the Crusades when Latin Christians slayed Greek Christians or when Catholics and the Protestants fought one another during the Reformation and Counter Reformation. Now the fighting is not merely with a sword, but with words. We divide ourselves over minute differences and refuse to love one another. We claim we are chosen and ridicule another body of believers as less than.

Oh Lord, please, change our hearts. We are family torn apart. Heal your Body O Lord, and renew are right spirit within us. Help us to "love one another, as we love ourselves." Help us to bridle our tongues and sow seeds of kindness rather than cruelty. Help us to build up one another and recognize each other as a part of your Body. Let us respect one enough to point of considering that if we condemn one another it is condemning you Christ. That you Lord are inside all of us and thus when we criticize your creation, we criticize You.

Help us to love again Lord. To not speak the words, but live them. Change your Church into your Bride, remove the Nun habit and Harlot garment, and let us neither be condemning or condoning. Let us be moved by your Holy Spirit. Guide our words and let our actions be acceptable in your sight Heavenly Father. Let us imitate and emulate you Son of God, Jesus in everyway. Amen.

Notes:

I want to give credit to St. Paul who wrote the inspiration for this plea in Philippians and to Pastor Eric for his sermon on Sunday. They convicted me to express in my own words the grief of what is going on in the Church.

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