I am hoping that I can get some Godly advice concerning an issue with my family.
My wife and son formerly were active members in an Independent Christian Church (strongly Arminian / legalistic / emergent)... a church that requires baptism by immersion to be saved. The missiology and soteriology are strongly Arminian and emergent in nature. Obviously, we disagree with just about everything they say and teach.
The problem is that both of my sisters and my brother (all of whom I was very close with and still see on a regular basis) are members there - they and their family. We have parted ways doctrinaly, and we have split our family apart. Even the unbelievers in our family know about it, and do not understand. We have to be able to get along because we all work together in a family-owned business. My questions is this... "How can we live together (in harmony) as Christian brothers and sisters when there is such dramatic differences between everything we believe???"
Thanks for any help you can offer,
My wife and son formerly were active members in an Independent Christian Church (strongly Arminian / legalistic / emergent)... a church that requires baptism by immersion to be saved. The missiology and soteriology are strongly Arminian and emergent in nature. Obviously, we disagree with just about everything they say and teach.
The problem is that both of my sisters and my brother (all of whom I was very close with and still see on a regular basis) are members there - they and their family. We have parted ways doctrinaly, and we have split our family apart. Even the unbelievers in our family know about it, and do not understand. We have to be able to get along because we all work together in a family-owned business. My questions is this... "How can we live together (in harmony) as Christian brothers and sisters when there is such dramatic differences between everything we believe???"
Thanks for any help you can offer,