One Anothering

“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you”

I’d like to consider what it means to accept each other.

What does accepting one another look like?

It’s no good just saying that we accept each other – it has to be worked out in our lives together with other Christians – in our common unity.

Accept one another

There’s a little section in Paul’s letter to the Galatians Chapter 2 where he tells us about the time when Peter came to visit him at Antioch.

¹¹But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. ¹²For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. ¹³And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. ¹⁴But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”