Five takeaways from The Christian Chronicle’s ‘Reunited’ series.
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Pennsylvania. Oklahoma. And now, South Dakota.
In the “Reunited” series, The Christian Chronicle traveled to three locations — a 3,400-mile triangle on a U.S. map — to report on Churches of Christ that split apart but later came back together.
Christians like to talk about unity, the kind for which Jesus prayed in John 17.
But all too often, division occurs instead — instigated sometimes by doctrinal conflicts and other times by personality clashes. Many times, the real problem is a combination of both.
“Thankfully, a spirit of unity is stirring in the hearts of certain places,” said Jeremie Beller, a Chronicle contributing editor and dean of the Bible college at Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City.
The Chronicle witnessed that spirit of unity at the Cornerstone Church of Christ in Pottstown, Pa., the Durant Church of Christ in Oklahoma and the Sioux Falls Church of Christ in South Dakota.
In those places, congregations 6.5 miles apart (Pennsylvania), 1.5 miles apart (Oklahoma) and 3 miles apart (South Dakota) reunited after decades of separation.
This story appears in the online edition of The Christian Chronicle.
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