1) Do you struggle to give thanks for Christ’s church? Name 5 things
you’re grateful for in the Church.

2) In what ways do you see the Church divided? How can we foster a
healthy, cross-centered “unity” at our church?

Divisions in the church are contrary to the gospel. We must not divide the
church along lines of loyalty to human leaders.
Richard Pratt

In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be
assured that my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep
disappointment where there is not deep love. Yes, I love the church. How
could I do otherwise? I am in the rather unique position of being the son, the
grandson and the great grandson of preachers. Yes, I see the church as the
body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body
through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Many of us have so succumbed to the tribalism in the church that we’ve
started labeling people who are like us as “right” and people who are
different than us as “wrong.” 
Christena Cleveland

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