One Body

Acts 11:17So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could oppose God?"

Can you believe circumcised believers would have a problem with new Gentile (uncircumcised believers)?
That is so foreign to us (sarcasm noted) . Differences between believers…what about Baptist and Methodist or Presbyterians and Charismatics. Yet theirs was more deep seeded than this, almost hatred. But as soon as Peter explained that God poured out his Holy Spirit the same way as he had them, they had no more objections.

I feel the lesson in this is simple. Put aside our differences and recognize that we have different methodologies, but the same Spirit. There is no sense putting up barriers to non-believers by speaking poorly or arguing differences between man made denominations. What we should be doing is coming together as believers, and working together to take care of the homeless, the poor, the widows, and the orphans. And in turn, do our best to be united in the Truths that Christ gave us all. The Trinity, the inerrancy of Scripture, Jesus birth, life, death, burial and resurrection.