Day Three: Something worth fighting for

It bothers me that Christians are viewed as a group who'll shoot their own wounded. After all, how can they be viewed as anything but crazy if all they do is criticize each other and fight over the dumbest things.

I can only speak for myself (and, I think, my whole church) here, but there are certain things that I won't fight for. I won't fight over whether or not a person can lose his or her salvation, but I will fight over the fact that Jesus Christ did indeed bear our sins on the cross as a sacrifice that we couldn't make ourselves. I'll fight over that.

I won't fight over what a person wears to church -- that's his or her own prerogative -- or about the type of music that is played during a worship service. I won't fight over creeds or the role of women in the church or even about abortion or presidential elections. To me, that's all moot. We could be dead wrong and still have a solid relationship with Jesus.

It bothers me that churches are divided over petty issues that, in the end, have no place in eternity. What does matter is looking into issues of salvation: who is Jesus? What did He do? And why in the world does it matter? These are the questions that ultimately will dictate where a person spends eternity. And that is something worth fighting for.