A Call to Unity
"Work at living in peace with everyone and work at living a holy life...Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many." Hebrews 12:14a &15b For the past few years, a new fad has popped up within the church community, a fad that I believe was started without ill intention and by well-meaning believers, yet a fad that really needs to end. This is the "I Love My Church" slogan that some churches have begun selling on shirts and other merchandise as perhaps a means of advertisement. From the first time I saw this on a T-shirt, it made me very uncomfortable but I could not pinpoint exactly why until recently. My pastor was preaching one Sunday and during the sermon, this very topic came up. What he said hit the nail on the head; this slogan, this way of thinking, is causing division within the body of Christ. All of us who are born again believers are apart of THE church, which is the church of Jesus Christ. It