We do not invite their ministers to preach their distinctive doctrines in our churches, but we may invite them from time to time to present other matters in which they specialize and where their teaching can profit our congregations. We cooperate with them where we can cooperate without compromising our theological distin ctives. This is part of the heritage that the Reformation bequeathed to the church. It was expressed powerfully by Princeton Seminary's great Presbyterian theologian, A. A. Hodge. Undoubtedly, there is such a thing as schism.
Schism is a great sin.
But if the Church is a spiritual body, the sin is a sin against spiritual unity. I hold that it is our interest to have denominational differences in order to maintain what God has given us. We do desire comprehensively to work together toward unity, but mongrelism is not the way to get at it. This is the true spirit of the multiformity of the church. The Faith of the Reformation was built upon the Faith of the ancient and medieval Church and its consensus.