The Church is fractured.

We've seen that over the past couple of years.

We've experienced a lot of division among Christians at the levels of networks and denominations,

but also inside local churches and among friends too.

So is all this division a good thing?

Is it only a bad thing?

Will division work for the Church's greater purity and final good, or will division work

to the Church's final detriment and the lessening of our testimony in the world today?

It's a relevant question.

It's an important one.

It comes to us from a listener named Connor.

Hello, Pastor Donna.

Thank you for this encouraging podcast.

I have heard a lot from fellow Christians recently about the sadness of the Church being

so divided with all its disagreements, splitting local churches and denominations and even

old friends.

Division is everywhere.

While there's much to be said about in much of this, especially given Jesus's emphasis

on his desire that his disciples be unified in love, I have been wondering whether some

of the divisions in the Church today are good, even necessary as a means to distinguish

the sheep from the wolves, something Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 1119.

But can we distinguish healthy from unhealthy divisions in the Church?

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