Dr. Juli Slattery

Yeah.

It's it's these firm lines.

It's not a willingness to say, hey, you see this from a different perspective.

I don't agree, but let me understand how you got there.

And let me leave some room for grace and conviction of the Holy Spirit, even when I don't agree.

And let me be asking the Lord, what does it look like to love you well in this space?

Oh, it is.

I mean, it dawned on me about a year ago, there are no denominations in the Bible except for the scribes, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees, and the Zealots.

The religious leaders that Jesus was not happy with, they were the ones that had denominations.

But if you read the New Testament, the churches were identified by their location.

So the church of Ephesus or Berea, but they were unified.

and we've just grown up so much with this idea of denominations that it feels like, oh yeah, of course.

No, like with the persecuted church, there are not denominations.

It's like, you love Jesus?

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, let's worship together.

So why do we do this?

Boy, that's a big question.

I don't know that I have one answer.

What's causing this?