Test Your Faith (James) No.14- Church Fights

Have you ever witnessed, or been part of a fight in church? Maybe not fists, but words? I’ve seen church fights over some pretty crazy things, sometimes over little things, and other times big things. I’ve seen church fights over what version of the Bible should be preached from, even what time the service should start. I’ve seen church fights, people even leaving a church family because it wasn’t “woke” enough or “MAGA” enough. I’ve seen church fights over carpet color, drums, coffee pots… I’ve even seen fights over communion, and apple fritters! There’s lots of reasons church people fight, but did you know, these things aren’t the actual reason we fight? In fact, even if all these things met your criteria, if everyone agreed on all these things, there would still be fights. Those are just excuses, things we blame, manifestations of a much bigger problem that starts deep within each of us. The real cause is when we are sitting on the fence, when we want it both ways, we want to love God & love this world. When our internal desires & passions make us double-minded, unstable, putting us in conflict w/each other & w/God. Every one of us has been here, in arrogance gotten angry when a brother or sister interferes w/our agenda or passions. How we respond when we’ve forgotten how much we need grace is another important test of our ropes of faith.