Agreeing to go

 

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? Amos 3:3

            Indeed, they do not… Here is a general principle for life, if we are going to walk together, we must agree to meet. This is no casual agreement either, but a very deep and broad sort of agreement, for we are speaking of a great journey and not a quick jaunt across the block. It isn’t that disagreement will make our journey harder, it makes it impossible, incommensurable.  Think of it, if you have decided to go south, and your friend is set on going north or east you can’t go together; you’re going to have to find another soul who wishes to travel south, and to travel as far south as you, and to take the same route as you. Otherwise, you won’t really be going together. And that is true even if you are only going a block.

            Here I must draw a point of application to local churches, if some in the congregation are not in agreement with the rest those who disagree ought to go. The church cannot go on together without agreement. And without agreement there is no membership in the body. So, let the church have its agreement on direction and al else, and let it be well published, and let any who cannot in good conscience agree with it find some brethren who they do agree with.

            God is asking the question here, and so we have more than a handy life principle. We have a life-or-death problem, for to live we must go with God, and to go any other way is death. We are by nature going our own way, and we cannot begin to go God’s way at all. Enter Christ who opened the way by breaking the power of sin’s tyranny over us so that we might by grace through faith agree with God and walk with Him to glory. Christ has illuminated the darkness to make the way visible.

            Now a second point of application to the churches and all Christians, we ought ot be very humble in charting our directions for agreement with God is all of grace and that all in Christ, we should be seeking more than deciding for we have already made the ultimate decision which decides all the rest in deciding to follow Jesus.

            Hat being the case every church ought to be thoroughly convinced of its direction through prayer and meditation and study of scripture, to trust they are going with God. If any should dissent without clear scriptural support to overcome the current direction, then it right that they should go.  

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