Living in the Tension of Disagreement
I am learning to not only love disagreement, but to seek it out. I have been a part of a group of guys that get together on a weekly basis and I find it so liberating to have found fellow sojourners who don't always agree with me. We live and talk and discuss in this tension between what they think and what I think and what each other think, but I don't have to worry in the least that anyone of them is going to stop loving me or that they have any ulterior motives other than more of a relationship with God. If they do have something hard to say about my lifestyle or about what I think, with all of my heart I believe that it is being said because they want to see the best for me.
When did we lose the ability to live and dwell in that tension? I have see and experienced nothing but growth as a result of crawling through the muck of this tension. Sometimes it gets heated or feels uncomfortable but always ends in a hug. When we avoid such relationships and encounters, we settle for a status quo life that will never find itself in the epicenter of a move of God.
Created almost 3 years ago
