It's been 500 years since the Protestant Reformation. Dialogue between Catholics and Protestants

has improved, but it's still not where it should be. Every day, debates rage online.

Scroll through the comments and you'll find misrepresentations, straw man arguments, and

recycled soundbites. That's why we wrote What Still Divides Us, a short book that uncovers four key

questions that still separate Protestants and Catholics today. How are we saved? How does God speak?

Who runs the church? How should we worship? We don't need to ignore our differences. We need to

understand them, especially if we want real conversations, not just arguments.

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One of the things Christians get really excited about is when someone with a big platform, someone

who's really well known, a celebrity, declares their faith in Christ.

And of course, that is something that we should be excited about as followers of Jesus.

The Bible says that any time a sinner repents, whether they're rich or poor, the angels

in heaven are celebrating. So that's something

that we should celebrate. But I wonder if we as followers of Jesus don't sometimes put too

much stock in these individuals and in their conversion stories.

It's something truly that we should celebrate anytime someone comes to faith in Christ.

But one of my concerns is a lot of times people, believers, will look to these new converts who have a big platform as guides, as teachers,

as people that we should be listening to about the faith, when in reality, someone who has just

come to faith in Christ needs to spend time sitting at the feet of Jesus. And one of the things

that I love about Jesus in the Gospels is that he isn't just

focused on the rich and the famous. It's fascinating to me, right? It's not like he's out there

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