Unity Without Uniformity

Learning to love each other without requiring identical faith experiences.

My wife and I sit in the same church.

We listen to the same sermons. We confess the same gospel. We pray together, read together, walk through the same seasons together.

And yet, we often walk away carrying different things.

For a long time, I assumed that shared belief would eventually produce shared experience. If we agreed on core doctrine, I thought, t…