Coming Full Circle

This journey I'm on started with recognizing Jesus desire for all his followers to be united (John 17:20-23). So I've tried to understand some of the issues that are keeping Christ's people from demonstrating love towards each other. As I look at the issues I question if any of the issues are more essential to our faith than Christ's command to love one another.

All Christ followers from thousands of different Christian traditions claim to:

• believe in Jesus
• love Jesus
• follow Jesus

However they disagree on some lesser theological points.

I've thought that the different traditions would benefit from fellowshipping with each other. The different traditions have different strengths and emphasis that other traditions would be sharpened by if they acknowledged their common love for the same Christ.

Now as my journey continues, I'm being shown different things in my tradition that I do not agree with. There are some core pieces of reformed theology that I question is really core to our scriptures.

So I've come full circle. Can I remain united with my brothers and sisters who hold different views on some theological points. Or do I have to leave and search for others who agree with everything I believe?

When I put it this way the answer is clear to me. I join with Jesus as he prays for unity, that dispite some lesser differences we can recognize our shared love and commitment to the same Jesus. When appropriate I pray we can have dialog on issues of dissagreement, and that truth will prevail... but above all I pray love will always prevail.