Paul's Little Fantasy

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.  1 Corinthians 1:10

Whoeee! Paul really lays out the fantasy there, don't he? If only Brother Paul could have seen ahead to our current political and religious time he would know the futility of his wish! Hmm, let us see. Paul lived as a Roman citizen under the occupation of Rome where the empire had their ways of disseminating news to the republics of every new law, scandal and celebrity peccadillo. The order of the day was pagan and heathen, and about every other religion one might imagine,  as long as they obeyed Caesar first as the word from their god. Politics was such a rough and often deadly game that even barbarians in the Colosseum might have been more likely to make it to old age and retirement. No, Paul had all the evidence he needed about what our world has become and his pleading remains the same: Come together, be one in Christ our Lord.  

That of course does not mean that it will be easy or even immediate. You likely have a division, disagreement, or dispute with one or more of the saints right there in your own Bible study or church group, no matter how small it may be. As it was for Paul and the Corinthians, so it is for us, we all need our Lord Jesus at the heart of this life, or maybe that is IN the heart of our life.

Love and joy in Christ our Lord,

Bucky