by Marcia Mount Shoop
1 Kings 19:15-16, 19-21; Galatians 5:1, 13-25
“There was really never a time in the history of people following Jesus when there was not diversity of interpretation. God doesn’t seem to encourage sameness for any kind of system to be healthy—variety, difference can create fruitful conditions, except when those differences become weapons for breaking community instead of tools for building community.”