This is Max Lakato. One of the most difficult relationship questions is, what do you do with your opposite you?

Your opposite you is the person with whom you fundamentally disagree. You adhere to different codes of behavior and dress and faith.

How does God want us to respond to the opposite use of the world?

I wonder if the best answer might be found in the short admonition,

to accept one another then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.

This verb, accept Paralumbano, means more than tolerate or coexist.

It means to welcome into one's fellowship and heart.

The word implies the warmth and kindness of genuine love.

Paul employed the verb when he urged Philemon to welcome the slave Onesimus,

and Jesus used it to describe the manner in which he receives us, except

your opposite you.