... It is not about one side being right and the other wrong but how we live with profound difference.
... But I don't think that was what Paul or Jesus or the rest of the Bible is about. My belief in Jesus Christ calls me to be part of a worshipping community - not always people I agree with or get on easily with but ones that I am called to see as brothers and sisters in Christ. That is
both security and challenge - I don't know it all, I am challenged to see others views, as well as be valued for my insights and experience. ...
Desmond Tutu spoke of the rainbow people of God: see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/tutu.html
("Let us go forth, then, as the followers of this Jesus, ready to celebrate life that can't be lived by rote. Let's luxuriate in its complexities, in its bewildering ambiguities, excited by the thrill of working out things for ourselves; let us celebrate our diversity opposing the new xenophobia that is abroad, knocking down the walls that would keep the stranger out. ")
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