Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Unity

Pope Frances has been making efforts to unite Christian churches. Last night on my way to work it was the topic on Catholic radio. There were many interesting and different views on this topic. The questions included, should there be one Christian denomination? What kind of sacrifices would have to be made? How can we accomplish it?
Personally, I think it would be great to have One Holy Apostolic Church in which all Christians lived in harmony. Do I think it will happen? Not in my lifetime. I agree that we need to be more ecumenical and that a united Church is exactly what Jesus wants but I think there are way to many prejudices and theological differences for it to happen any time soon. I always have to bite my tongue when I hear people say, "All churches are the same, so it doesn't matter where we go". All churches are not the same. If they were, there would be one church! So what do you think about this? Please comment.