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Here’s some food for thought: Do you spend more time building walls with religion or bridges through relationships?  As Christians we should spend more time building bridges rather than walls.  Religion is comprised of bricks and mortar that create walls of separation between people.  Relationships are more like bridges that connect us to each other.  Let me share a bridge building example from earlier this week.

This past Wednesday I spent a few hours with a group of pastors from the KC area.  We all come from different tribes (probably better known as denominations).  We had large church pastors, small church pastors, and church planters that haven’t even started yet.  Some of us were pre-trib and pre-millennial and others were not (don’t worry about what that means because most of us aren’t quite sure).  We had Calvinists and Armenians together in one room along with a few caught in the middle (and TULIP wasn’t even brought up).

I say all of that to say this: We didn’t focus on RELIGION!  We were all there for the RELATIONSHIPS.  Don’t get me wrong.  We are all Bible believing pastors that preach and teach Jesus is the only way to heaven.  We all agree on our core creed of beliefs.  We just choose not to build walls based on our doctrinal differences.  We celebrate our differences and focus on building our relationships.

“After all, we need thousands of different kinds of churches to reach millions of different kinds of people.” This quote came from one of my non A/G pastor friends leading our discussion.  I couldn’t agree with him more.  Let me encourage you to focus on building relationships with other Christians.  As long as you can agree upon the core creed of Christianity then why argue about the rest?  Focus on what really matters: your relationship with Jesus!  Start tearing down your walls and building out your bridges!