Christian unity.

OK so w ll know that I am a huge preponderant of Christian unity, but sadly in the last few years I have learned all of the road blocks for that goal. and in truth one of the main issues is the pastors and priests of Christianity. mark you that not all pastors in th faith are such an issue, in fact my asst pastor also felt strongly about it, but there are those who teach that any denomination outside there own is outside the will and grace of God. this really is a sinful act as shown in 1 Corinthians 4:6. to teach that your denomination alone has the truth of God is to be prideful and assume you know Gods will and mind. The second issue I see is the Christian people them selves. Just this last Sunday I was talking to a woman in my Nazarene church about a visit to a cathedral in Ft Worth, and she said to me "couldn't you have found a Christian church?" I looked at her in confusion and replied "didn't i just say I attended in a mass?" she looked at me a bit annoyed and said "well if you become a Nazarene pastor you cant do that any more, it might look odd." this is not the only experience I have in this area, but it really resounded with me, because it really showed me the depth of this issue. to think that a Nazarene pastor is basically prohibited from attending a mass is unbelievable to me. I wanted to look at he and say "that is insane to me, to think that a pastor can not attend another denomination's services. I just want to know when i missed the memo that we are now serving a different Christ than the Catholic Church, or the Episcopal Church, or even other Evangelical Christians?" when we have such disunity in our faith we lose all credibility to speak on anything in the outside world. I am planning a move to England in January, but before that I am working for a meeting of clergy from around the state of New Mexico to examine how this issue may be resolved. I ask for your prayers for this project.


                                                                your friend Malachi P, Holmes.