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Most people who follow God admit that he is big.
Really big.
Yet for some reason, followers of God tend to have little tolerance for ideas about him that differ from their own.
And you don’t even have to cross the boundaries of differing religions to find frustrations. In my faith, we’ve divided into denominations. Each holds their own view point and each is traditionally not open to seeing things in ways other people see them. (Fortunately this is changing with a new generation of leaders.)
If God truly is big – really big – wouldn’t it follow that none of us would be able to fully define or explain him? Wouldn’t he be beyond the explanation of a person, or even a group of people, locked in a limited time in history with limited view?
There’s nothing dangerous about listening to someone whose ideas are different than yours. But there is something dangerous about not listening.
Theology can quickly become inbred. Limited by where I live, what I’ve experienced or the priorities of my church.
Christ commissioned his followers as a body.
A group of people with different roles, doing different things and looking radically different. We do well when we embrace these differences, grow from our different understandings and show support for one another as we all try and understand more of our huge God.
Embrace the bigness of God. Understand him through another person’s viewpoint. You don’t have to change your viewpoint (that degrades the beauty of the body too) – but you do well to see a side you might not have seen before.
And typically when you experience more of God, you grow.




