What will make believers pursue peace?
Posted at Reformation Scotland: Some people are expert at identifying disagreements and upsets and then probing continually to keep the difficulty at the forefront of everyone’s minds. This is not the honest interest of wanting to arrive at a settled view of a doubtful question in their own minds, but comes from a darker motivation that finds some kind of satisfaction in seeing other people at loggerheads. Yet this is the opposite of what a Christian should be like. When there are disagreements between Christians, fellow believers should do all they can not to make things worse, and everything possible to bring reconciliation and harmony. In the following updated extract, Westminster Assembly member Jeremiah Burroughs offers a series of considerations to help us prioritise peace between Christian and Christian. Think of how far we can agree We differ in this way and that way, but what do we agree in? Do we not agree in enough things that we may spend all the days of our lives and ...
