I didn't know that. Would that each of us could live in such a way that our spiritual eyes, and the accompanying excitement, would grow bigger and bigger day by day. For some of us, the testimony ends with conversion, and it seems that God has not done a single new thing within us for a long, long time. Others have sought to invest their spiritual energies in fine-tuning doctrinal differences. A legitimate exercise in the process of spiritual maturation, but sadly, many are sidetracked by the doctrinal battles.
Theological purity becomes more important than Christian unity.
We'd rather fall on our doctrinal swords than bear witness to the incomprehensible love of a savior who promises to return. This movement to a modern-day Pharisaism can inoculate many against a gospel that is always bigger than our individual understandings. Our Iranian friend was highlighting a potential problem with our faith. Each of us has been drawn to Jesus by a need that encouraged a commitment. But our original conversion quite possibly was not dependent on the whole of the gospel.