Tuesday, 16 May 2017

THIS LED TO DISAGREEMENT

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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