… and there are some that only liberal Christianity will reach.
The raison d’etre for all Christians, regardless of one’s conservative/liberal bias, is to bring to everyone the good news of Jesus Christ offering to set us free from the power of sin. The Christian’s job is not to convert another person from conservative to liberal, or vice versa.
Every person views the world differently from another. Not every school of Christian theology will get a hearing by any given individual. As long as the goal for a particular school of Christian theology is not denominationalism or the theology itself, but rather the message that one can be freed by Christ from sin’s power, does it matter which school brings a person to Christ?
Rather than attacking one another, conservative and liberal Christians ought to learn to agree to disagree, to respect one another’s differences as God’s accommodation of reality in reaching people with different perspectives, and work together to stop slinging mud on Christ’s name for supposed doctrinal and behavior purity.
We need each other, even those with whom we disagree.
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