Agreeing with Adam

A man I consider to be one of my best friends is someone who I often disagree with, especially when it comes to politics.  I don't remember the last time we talked about politics and agreed.  Adam is one my dearest friends and when it comes to how we read the Bible I would say that we are very different.  We do usually come to the same conclusions on what it means for our lives.

Adam's, http://adamheffelfinger.blogspot.com, missional approach to doing church is something that I can get behind. I have long thought that the Church in North America, and maybe the world, has lost track of what it should be doing, and how it should be doing it.  The main culprit is denominationalism.  The endless splitting and growing and splitting again of the Protestant church has caused the division of the Body of Christ.  My heart tells me the solution is to start a church of my own and hope that it changes other churches.  My brain tells me that doing that would only cause more division.  The solution is in the churches themselves.  They, and me as well, must put aside all we think we know but Christ crucified (Paul says, "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." 1 Corinthians 2:2).

I think that debate about theology and doctrine is important and I am not advocating theology outside of orthodoxy.  I think that it has a place in the Church, but when it divides the Church what good is it doing?

I told Adam the other day that I felt like Martin Luther did, all he wanted to do was help fix what was broken.  Instead, we got the reformation. Maybe, we are do for another, what do you think? I would like to see this reformation bring the Church back together.  Besides if Adam and I who are so different can get along, everyone else should have it easy.