For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
1 Corinthians 11:19 (ESV)
Thats a fresh look at factions! This letter from the apostle Paul is full of grace. The Corinthian church were full of problems, giving the apostle no little grief. And yet his perspective was so soaked by grace that he could even find good in the bad. Factions? Well, they’re necessary to tell the genuine from the false. And just like Jesus in john 8 to the woman caught in adultery Paul says here to these Christ followers – ‘oh, and by the way, get it together’.
Grace changes everything. Even the way we look at factions.
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