It's just not fair. Stamps foot.

Ok, so Steve is going on about Church unity in his blog).

And it’s a whole different angle to the one that I have issues with. Great.

So just as soon as I’ve got my head round the whole communion thing I’ve got the teaching side to cope with. Unless they’re both actually the same thing.

I’m really hoping that one day I’m able to make it through a communion/Eucharist service in either a Catholic or Protestant church without falling apart and dissolving into tears about the difficulty of division amongst Christians. Steve states that we’re either unifying with bad teaching or bad living when we try to unify churches. But it’s deeper than that when you realise that even when you get good teaching and good living of the world you’re still so divided that it physically hurts.

But is that so bad? Are we meant to be pleased that all these different Christian groups have such serious divisions that we can’t even come together as a community in communion? Maybe it is something that we should all be getting upset about, instead of working and compromising around. All to often ecumenism is about doing what we can and ignoring the rest. For the record, the ecumenical stuff I’m involved in doesn’t do that at all.

Why can’t it be simple? After all – It’s not as though any of us are out here with a complex message is it?

Answers on a postcard....