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\"\"Early in October I had a wonderful experience with a number of\u00a0 folks in North Carolina.\u00a0 It was marvelous for several reasons, the people were delightful in their own ways with their own expressions of the Kingdom and the Gospel story.\u00a0 There were folks from Australia, Germany, the UK, Canada and from many of the US states.\u00a0 While there was a deep and rich sense of unity rooted in Christ there was a delightful diversity that added breadth and a richness to our conversations.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t always easy.\u00a0 For me, I found myself having to listen carefully, and in a sense translate what other people were saying.\u00a0 We all spoke English but we used terms and words differently at at times.\u00a0 By listening carefully I was able, for the most part, to understand what they meant when they used certain terms.\u00a0 I have come to realize that we often use suitcase terms<\/strong>.\u00a0 Suitcase terms are a word or two which hold a lot of meaning – examples would be: authority of scripture<\/strong>; some believe that the words on the page have authority while others believe scripture has authority because it points to the one with authority.\u00a0 Righteousness<\/strong>; some believe as a result of Christs death and resurrection we actually become righteous ourselves while others believe we are made righteous as a judge would judge us not guilty.\u00a0 One last one: Fear of the Lord<\/strong>.\u00a0 Some believe this fear is a fear of being punished and therefore we must obey while others understand the the fear of the Lord to be a reverent awe and a wonder.\u00a0 As you can appreciate, how one understand a term influences the context of what they say next – so there is often a great deal of translation required.<\/p>\n

So like being in the mission field, it is important that we learn to translate – translate what we hear from the people we are with and in turn be able to translate what we think and believe so those we share with understand where we are coming from.\u00a0 It is indeed a cross-cultural experience as Christians from different regions, traditions, denominations, nations and ethnicity communicate Jesus in their unique way.\u00a0\u00a0 This isn’t a different message necessarily but rather tend to emphasize different aspects of faith in different ways.<\/p>\n

Consider that sacramental churches like Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism tend to emphasize the mystery and sacrificial aspects of Christianity and see this motif expressed in their worship.\u00a0 The sacrificial aspect of the Kingdom is certainly an important one.\u00a0 Likewise, Evangelicals \/ Calvinists tend to emphasize the bible and Charismatics tend to emphasize the gifts.\u00a0 Some streams emphasize mission, some mercy and justice and so forth.\u00a0 To have emphasis I don’t mean that they dismiss the others just often place more weight in an area or motif.
\nGayle Beebe in hs book “Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion” has identified 7 paths or expressions \/ emphasis of intimacy with God.\u00a0 These are:<\/p>\n

Right ordering of our love for God.<\/strong>
\nSpiritual Life as a Journey<\/strong>
\nKnowledge of God Lost in the Fall<\/strong>
\nIntimacy with Jesus<\/strong>
\nRight ordering of our experiences with God<\/strong>
\nAction and Contemplation<\/strong>
\nDivine Ascent (Mystic)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 As individuals, we all have unique personalities – thank goodness!\u00a0 This means we will all see things a little (or a lot) differently and as such, emphasize one area over another.\u00a0\u00a0 Gary Thomas wrote an interesting book discussing\u00a0 9 Spiritual temperaments or personalities.\u00a0\u00a0 He suggests people in general are primarily one of the 9 spiritual personality types:<\/p>\n

\n

\u00a0 – Naturalist\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Sensate\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Traditionalist\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

– Ascetics\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 – Activists<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Caregivers\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Enthusiast\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Contemplatives\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Intellectuals<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0 Thomas suggests that while each person may hold to the same \/ similar theology, they are naturally wired to express it and experience it differently.\u00a0 This diversity is not an enemy to unity, rather it adds a healthy dimension to it – where together, as one body with many parts, we can express a fuller picture of God.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Consider the four Gospels.<\/strong>\u00a0 Each of the authors, while telling the same story emphasize different aspects of the story.\u00a0 Matthew was writing for a Jewish audience, so Matthew emphasized that Jesus was the awaited Messiah, the Son of David who would reign as Israels King forever.\u00a0 Mark seems to emphasize Jesus as servant while Luke portrays Jesus as the Son of Man and his humanity written to Gentiles and from a more academic posture.\u00a0\u00a0 John seems to emphasize the loving nature and mandate of Christ, and His divinity, very much through a lens of love.\u00a0\u00a0 There is certainly substantive unity among the Gospel writers but also diversity with respect to the aspects of Christ they want to highlight.\u00a0 This is often a direct result of their personalities and the intended audience and what would be meaningful to them.\u00a0 For example, Matthew explaining the lineage of Jesus and the Old Testament prophesies as they relate to Christ would be more significant to Jews rather than Gentiles.<\/p>\n

It is important to recognize the value of each stream, understanding that we all see in part, as through a glass darkly – this means while we hold to what could very well be healthy, good and true expression of part of the Kingdom, we (our group) on our own do not reflect it in its fullness.\u00a0 No one denomination or tradition (or those who think they have no tradition or denomination) hold the final word on the fullness of God.\u00a0\u00a0 We need each other, for together we become a living mosaic revealing a fuller picture of the face of God.\u00a0 To this end, I am reminded of Paul’s words to the Ephesians when he wrote “that together with all the saints we can know the height, depth, breadth of the love of God…”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So which is the right way, the right thinking, aka the truth?\u00a0 Well first off, the truth is a person and to be faithful is to walk in a \"\"committed relationship with the person of Jesus.\u00a0 To have faith is not merely the right beliefs about God.\u00a0 To be rooted in the truth of Jesus is the safest palace on earth!\u00a0 It is important that we do not eject absolute truth at this point.\u00a0\u00a0 It is my conviction absolute truth exists however our ability to understand absolute truth, absolutely is not possible on our own.\u00a0 My friend Stephen Crosby reminds us “the scriptures are infallible but our interpretation of them is not.”\u00a0 It is important that our sense of security is rooted primarily in the person of Jesus and not solely in our propositional truths about Jesus.<\/p>\n

The net effect should be a posture of humility.\u00a0 Understanding that we don’t have the “corner on the market” with the right thinking about God will allow us to be more open, more gracious to others and posture us in a place where we can receive understanding about our great big God from others who may not do church like us or believe exactly like us.\u00a0 Remember, we are not saved on the basis of correct theology. I am not saying<\/strong> all opinions and thoughts about God are equally valid or healthy.\u00a0 The reality is some ideas are better than others, so we need to learn to enjoy the meat but spit out the bones.\u00a0 Just because someone believes it doesn’t necessarily make it absolutely right- more over, just because we believe what we do doesn’t necessarily mean it is completely right either.\u00a0\u00a0 So in this posture of humility and relational generosity it is like iron sharpening iron<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to shed unhealthy ideas of what unity in the church means, freeing it from a homologous, ‘conformity to a contextualized idea of unity’.\u00a0 It also helps us to recognize some of our own blind spots and helps us understand that what we believe about who God is and who humans are affects our models of church, of leadership, community and mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early in October I had a wonderful experience with a number of\u00a0 folks in North Carolina.\u00a0 It was marvelous for several reasons, the people were delightful in their own ways with their own expressions of the Kingdom and the Gospel story.\u00a0 There were folks from Australia, Germany, the UK, Canada and from many of the…","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[154,170,173,246,264,321,531],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-significant-sustenance","tag-diversity","tag-experience-god","tag-experiencing-unity-with-diversity","tag-healthy-faith","tag-how-to-experience-god","tag-leadership","tag-unity"],"yoast_head":"\nUntangling Unity - 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