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they say I can’t fellowship with you. We put up walls and
separations based on our own understanding.

Do you believe in the seventh day, or in the first day? Do you
believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Do you accept all the
spiritual gifts? Do you believe in missions? And all these walls
are put up. The Body of Christ becomes a collection of
separations and divisions. Jesus says this, “Because of the fact
that we have not arrived at the unity of the faith, we have a
blessed responsibility to,

“Keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace”.

We belong to each other, and the unity He gives as a blessed
responsibility, has nothing to do with the unity of the faith. It’s the
unity of the Spirit. Regardless of where you are in your faith and
where I am in my faith, we are one with every true believer.

Every one of us has the blessed responsibility to fellowship with all
other Christians. You might say, “Well, I don’t have anything in
common with them.” Yes, you do…..the Head. With every
Christian, we have Christ in common. Because we have the
Head in common, we have the same life. The same Holy Spirit,
and the same grace. The same forgiveness, and the same
heaven in the end.

I used to teach with all my might that the Church would be
raptured in the middle of the tribulation. I was mid-trib. I don’t
believe that any more. But so what, if somebody believes that!
You are one in Christ Jesus. If someone believes in raising their
hands when they worship, or break into a dance, so what! What
does that have to do with anything? You are believers; you are in
Christ Jesus. If they feel like taking a megaphone, and going out
on a street corner, so what. You might say that they are
embarrassing me.