I may have an ability or perspective that you lack.

But I have yet to meet anyone – and I mean anyone – who does not exceed me in some aspect of their own abilities and perspectives.

Likewise, no church or ministry will be healthy if it pulls into itself or thinks itself beyond everyone else.

This is true also with our different sub-cultures, theological “tribes,” and the often unexamined presumptions and perceptions of our own community of like-minded friends.

Unity through diversity with humility, rather than uniformity through control with hierarchy, is God’s intent among those who love Him and heed His Word …

As we learn to submit to one another and together become the multi-gifted, multi-functional, multi-part Body of Christ.