Unity and Diversity are two words that seem impossible to hold together in today's polarized world.

We're told to choose sides, draw lines, and separate from those who don't share our convictions.

But Scripture offers a radically

different vision, a church where believers genuinely accept one another without prejudice. So how do we

achieve this? Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall tackles this challenge head-on as he teaches

from Romans chapter 14.

Along the way, he'll offer three principles that free us from the twin killers of judgment

and control.

Chuck titled his message, Putting Grace into Action.

Our Savior in his last prayer recorded before he went to Gathrimony,

remembered us.

He prayed for those who would believe in him that all of them, quote, may be one.

Bring them into a unit, Lord, because there will always be my followers

in a minority, but they must impact the majority of a world that doesn't know me. So hold them

together. That was his hope for us before he ever went to the cross and after he left this earth,

knowing that we together as a unit can accomplish so much more than we will ever be able to accomplish with divided ranks and separate fellowships.

The apostles and early Christians, as different as all of them were, were remarkable

examples of people who dwell together in unity.

They got along.

In spite of all of that, there have always been conflicts in the church.

You cannot find an era in which some of the people of God are not at each other's throats, to put it bluntly.

Pastor Kent Hughes writes, churches have been ripped apart by disagreements over which factions have polarized,

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