Why do churches split? Is it something that can be avoided?
If you look at the word pride you can see what’s right in the middle of it; the letter “I.” That is, the person who is full of pride is almost always the cause of division, not just in churches but in the workplace, in politics, in the home…anywhere that this type of person is. Notice how many times some people say “I” like “I’d like this, I want that, I think this,” and “I believe that”; that is pride! A few years ago a huge church in Texas divided over something that was shockingly trivial…the color of the carpet in the foyer. Can you imagine how Christ, Who is the Head of the Church, must feel when believers split a church over something as non-essential as the color of the carpet? What a horrible witness this is to those who aren’t Christians. They must think to themselves, “If Christian’s can even agree on the color of the carpet in the church, I don’t want any part of it…I get enough divisiveness in the world where I live, thank you!” What a shame.
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