Commitment

"I am committed to the church. I'm not committed to you."

"But what's the difference?"

These are the last two lines to the play "Commitment." In the play, one character leaves a church after arguing about the color of the carpet. While it seems far-fetched to leave a church over the color of the carpet, schisms and church splits have erupted over such small things. One church I've heard of lost a third of its members over the removal of the Organ. Is this the way that a church should behave? More importantly, is this the way God wants the Church to act?

Philippians 2:1-5 says "Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." Paul states in this passage that we should be united in the Church. He asks us to be of the same mindset as Christ-selfless, loving, cooperative. If we were all like this, I doubt that we would have even half the problems in the Church that we do now.

1 Corinthians 12:12 states that "as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ." we have been called to be one body. How do we do that? We come together-Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant. We become one Church-Christ's church. We stand united against the sins of the world. We need to pray for unity. Until we do so, we cannot fully reach the lost.