Calah speaks out (guest blog)

A few weeks back I asked my daughter to write her thoughts about disunity among church leaders. The following are her thoughts...

When studying the Christian church of America one thing that continues to disturb me is the disunity among its leaders. This disunity has allowed men to feel or think that their ministry is more effective or better than others. It is funny because many believe that God's ministry has now become theirs.
This disunity has now stretched into the territory of name calling, belittlement, and judgment of the character passed on by those trying to accomplish the same goal. The question is this: Why do so many pastors get caught in this cycle? Why do they believe that their preaching method is "better" or more "effective" or that they even own it at all? Every member of the church is a minister but not every member is a pastor. A leader of a church must be called by God. If that is the case, those who are passing judgment by belittling other leaders are belittling and questioning God’s judgment.
God has given each and every pastor the gifts he needs to build His kingdom. Some leaders may be great communicators, others might be extremely intelligent, but God specifically called those men to build His Kingdom with those gifts. I think the problem that can be so easily identified is the issue of how God wants his message to be conveyed. Some may feel that a certain Bible translation should be read, or a specific Sunday school lesson should be taught but that is all irrelevant if the church is not living up to what Jesus came to earth to accomplish. And the most obvious answer is there is not a right or a wrong way to preach the message of God's love if it comes directly from the Bible.
The origin of Christianity stems from one source and that is Christ Himself, who lived a life of service, love, and sacrifice. Jesus was a man of broken and lost people. He came to seek and save the lost, not to hold Sunday school at an exclusive country club for only the well-dressed to attend. The church was created to be the hope of the world, to take people out of the grip of death and show them there is everlasting life in Christ.
WE are the hope of the world, and if the church does not stop its name calling and disputing then it will lose its foothold and it relevancy. God is going to do whatever it takes to save his people, but we have to make a choice. Are we going to continue to bicker and belittle each other or are we going to stand together and fight for the God who has called us? I use the word fight because this is a battle for the souls of the lost and broken.