Don’t let your differences separate you from others.

Drive around any town and you’ll see lots of different churches: Baptist churches, Presbyterian churches, Methodist churches, Independent Bible churches, Catholic churches, Pentecostal churches, Orthodox churches, and Lutheran churches It can all be rather confusing.

It’s fine that we have different churches with different names and different ways of doing things. Differences are good! It shows that the universal church, composed of all believers everywhere, is diverse. But we should never let our differences separate us. The Bible says that God sees no distinction between men and women, rich and poor, slave and free, Baptist and Catholic (okay, so the Bible doesn’t mention Baptists by name, but you get the idea). When we follow His Son, Jesus Christ, God sees us all as one.

This is the church of the living God, which is the pillar and support of the truth.

1 Timothy 3:15