And we all need to agree that any scriptural witness must always be filtered through the lens that is the life and ministry of Jesus. For example, they have said that Wesley would be in favor of same-sex marriage if he were alive today. All else above is obviously liberal nonsense. Bitter, partisan divisions exist over legislation. Racism and hate crimes continue to grow.
City schools continue to provide sub-standard education and experience a high dropout rate.
We continue to disagree on whether the targets of our efforts should be individual or systemic. We continue to disagree on the role America should play in the world as peace broker and peacemaker. Thus, the above disagreement does not even include the conservative in the dialogue. Divergent beliefs on the authority of scripture and how the biblical tradition should inform current faith and practice. But what unites us will be diminished and superficial until we meet what divides us head on.