There’s no doubt the early church had a lot of hurdles to climb over, not the least of which was they had every opportunity to have disunity. Think back to the Day of Pentecost. People came from all sorts of religious and political, yet they came together in one body. This passage reminds us of that as well. Too of the most important would-be divisions in the early Church was among the Jews and Gentiles. They were being reached in different ways, but the early Church made every effort to remain united. We should be able to do the same. Sure we come from different cultural backgrounds, but we share the same Spirit and the same baptism. If the early Church can do it, so can we.
