Re: To Jason

Unity in our faith through love. That is the church's greatest failing. There's much I could say, but others have said it so much better:

Psalm 133:1 "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"

Ephesians 4:1-3 "I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."

God in the Dock, "Answers to Questions on Christianity"
"Question 14.
Many people are quite unable to understand the theological differences which have caused divisions in the Christian Church. Do you consider that these differences are fundamental, and is the time now ripe for re-union?

Lewis:
The time is always ripe for re-union. Divisions between Christians are a sin and a scandal, and Christians ought at all times to be making contributions towards re-union, if it is only by their prayers. I am only a layman and a recent Christian, and I do not know much about these things, but in all the things which I have written and thought I have always stuck to traditional, dogmatic positions. The result is that letters of agreement reach me from what are ordinarily regarded as the most different kinds of Christians; for instance, I get letters for Jesuits, monks, nuns, and also from Quakers and Welsh Dissenters, and so on. So it seems to me that the 'extremist' elements in every Church are nearest one another and the liberal and 'broad-minded' people in each Body could never be united at all. The world of dogmatic Christianity is a place in which thousands of people of quite different types keep on saying the same thing, and the world of 'broad-mindedness' and watered-down 'religion' is a world where a small number of people (all of the same type) say totally different things and change their minds every few minutes. We shall never get re-union from them."

The Church, Christians, must always be striving to be united in Christ, and be working to come into closer relationship with one another through love - by being open and honest, by not pulling punches whether we discuss personal sin or theology. All forms of Christianity teach (that I know of, and if not, they are not Christian) that we follow ONE God, that there is ONE Way, that we have ONE Hope, and therefore there is no excuse not to have ONE Christianity. "The time is always ripe for re-union."

Jason