How important is church unity?

What issues should Christians die on so to speak today?

And what should they show charity on?

I'm joined by my friend, my colleague Scott Ray to unpack some of these issues which are super controversial.

In our conversation we're not going to settle all this are we?

What's your goal as we talk about something that in itself is dividing the church today?

How should we approach questions like this?

Well, Sean, what I hope we can accomplish in this discussion is to give our viewers some general guidelines for how to decide.

How to decide where to draw a line in the sand and what kinds of issues are worth dividing over.

Because I think what the culture sees today is that we are losing charity, grace, sensitivity, understanding, listening,

in favor of drawing increasingly rigid lines in the sand and more of them than we've ever drawn in the past.

So I want to tell, I want to help people discern when to draw lines and when to you know to allow for

room to agree to disagree among our brothers and sisters of good faith.

Good stuff, because it doesn't seem we're doing a great job at that within the church today.

No, I think we're failing miserably at the moment.

Sometimes we're failing to die on the right hills, and sometimes we're dying on the wrong hills.

Now it's interesting to ask the question how concerned should we be about church unity

because as I was thinking about this, this prayer Jesus has in John 17,

verse 21, it says that they may all be one,

just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you,

that they may also be in us,

so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

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