Interestingly, the new acceptance has come about without anyone having to change what they believe. All that is different is there has been a new shift toward dialogue. Now we practice complementarity. Our beliefs complement one another. We admonish one another to keep believing what we do, or to take another look and think again about what we believe.
Ecumenical relations are a living process .
Although the future is not clear, without having to give up anything we believe or practice, we have agreed to move into the future together. Of course, it has always been true that there is only one God, whom we worship and serve in different ways. And for Christians, we are all sheep of the same fold of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Not only are we all going to the same heaven, but while we are here on the earth, we also serve the same Risen Christ. There is nothing new about this unity we have in Christ.