What If...

I have read tons over the past few weeks dealing with all the back and forth in The Episcopal Church and The Anglican Communion. I haven't had a lot to say mainly because, I don't have anything that I think I can add to the debate and, secondarily, I am fed up with the whole thing and think the church needs to move on to implementing it's true mission.

Today Fr. Tobias Haller has a great post titled "What If" on his blog "In a Godward Direction," that I am going to post in its entirety. I think it sums up my thoughts and, I plan to not wade into all this church politics and move forward as God intends.

For Christ is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it.

Ephesians 2:14-16

What if we were to practice what we proclaim: that we are one in Christ by virtue of our baptism?

What if we realized that what divides us are the rules we set in place to define us?

What if we set aside the commandments that divided us, the ordinances that determine who is in and who is out, the law that makes outlaws of us all?

What if we accepted Christ as our peace, as he accepted us, and went without covenants and treaties to bind us together, but trusted only in the Cross?

What if we truly practiced what we proclaimed?