Our fighting resembles our values as well. To defend our point of view, we quote Scriptures that prove how we are right and the other is wrong. We divide over narrow and legalistic notions of truth. One small church we served actually had two youth groups—one for home-school kids and the other for Christian school and public school children. Or we separate people by having special services and support groups for the divorced, for singles and single moms, or for people with addictive behaviors. Most
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