PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
THIS LED TO
DISAGREEMENT
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “ Some said,’Unless you have
yourselves circumcised you cannot be saved.’ This led to disagreement.” (Acts
15:1-6).
Reflection. Disagreements quickly arose in the early
Church: over the distribution of food (Acts 6), over Peter welcoming Cornelius
(Acts 10) and now over circumcision. In each case they had resort to the elders
in Jerusalem. They prayed and discussed together and each time came to a
solution that “filled them with delight”. Unfoirtunately disagreements did not always
end in harmony and schisms arose right up to the great schism between east and
west in the eleveneth century and the reformation in the sixteenth. But the
model of solving disagreements remains. Sit down together, discuss it openly
and pray for guidance. After all, disagreements have within them the seeds of
new steps in growth.
Prayer. Lord, help us to listen to one
another when we disagree. Amen.
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