Christian Devotional – December 27, 2024

Take Action, Day 15

Disagreements between believers. Read Acts 15.

Paul and Barnabas had done so much to start the work of the ministry of the early church. They traveled and they preached. They taught and they reached others,. Yet there came a moment one day when both got upset with each other. We will never know exactly the specifics of the argument. But we know what it was around a young man by the name of John Mark and the fact that he had left early on a previous mission trip.

It doesn’t really matter why they were arguing, but it’s important for us to understand that there was still arguments amongst the believers in the early church. Any time you have people together, you will have arguments. Church is no exception. The goal, though, is to be able to come into a unity of purpose. Both Barnabus and Paul understood the importance of the purpose, which was to share. Both of them continued going out and sharing.

But they understood that their method to do that would be different going forward. Do we allow disagreements to stop us from continuing in the ministry that God had for us? Do we continue to follow through on the ministry that God desires for us even when we don’t agree with others around us?