So then, let us aim for harmony in the church and try to build each other up.

Romans 14:19

If you’ve ever sung in a choir you’ll understand the beauty of a perfect harmony comes after much hard work and practise. At the outset there’s purpose to achieve it despite the cost. Church is beautiful when the notes we all sing and play through our actions and words build the whole and don’t just support our own section. After all, you can’t have a one-part harmony! To improve each other we’re instructed to choose harmony and let go the traits and actions of others which, like a grating minor key, we perceive as plain wrong. Harmony spots the slip but then decides “despite that I will pursue togetherness because it pleases my Father”, who after all is the same father of my out-of-tune brother or sister. Or was that me this time?