Division Among The Church Today

 In churches today, we have a huge melting pot of personalities and agendas. And being an individual in a leadership role within the church is very difficult because if we move too much in the wrong direction with the conflict it will damage what our main goal is, which is to further the advancement of Christ.

 Many times, we are faced with obstacles that must be handled as opposed to being pushed aside and one of these obstacles is division among the members of the congregation. Because of this and because of the evidence of division or discord in the early church, Paul addressed this many times. He too, knew that it was very important not to become distracted with the trivial situations that could drive us away from glorifying the Lord.

 The Corinthian church was having so many differences of a opinion that it was actually causing division among them as well as paralyzing any growth or any outreach to the community. Paul addressed this very common problem as a way of instructing them on how better to handle the situations that spark amongst them. These instructions and details can still apply to the church today.

  Since we are of this world, we will not only have to fight the enemy individually in our daily lives but we will also have to as a church. Just because we are surrounded by those four walls of the church building does not mean that the devil can not creep in and destroy what we are doing to further the advancement of the Gospel.

 I know in my own church I have seen this play out in many different situations. Many people have even stated that the division in the church body is very evident to everyone and that until it is addressed&brought under control that the church will not grow. I personally believe that when you hear this among the congregation it is there way of crying out for help because they know that we are failing to do our job as believers adequately.

 Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 1:10, .....that the members of the church should be perfectly united in mind and thought (my paraphrase). We must not allow things of this world to divide us. We are all in this together and we must fight the enemy at every turn so that we can win as many souls as we are able before the Lord's return.