"If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?" Don't get me wrong: I'm all for iron sharpening iron (and I relish satire), but at times I wish that certain parties would "start their day a little bit better" by taking their spiritual supplements:
*To regulate their bile: "A soft answer turneth away wrath."
*To help them keep perspective: "I bid every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment... For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
*To improve their understanding: "Be quick to hear."
There's a huge difference between conflicting doctrines vs. variant perspectives. Let's say we look @ the Versailles Palace together: maybe you are interested in photographing the gardens, I'm fascinated by the outer architecture, and our other buddy is intrigued by the interior decor. Are we contradicting each other in our differing foci when we give a joint slide show later? Are we not all still talking about Versailles? Might it just be that all of us together provide a more complete picture of Versailles?
Sheesh.
