Apr
10
2011
Criss-Crossed Christianity
This weekend we held our “Life Together” class. It’s what we call our membership class–a shameless pilfering of Bonhoeffer’s great little book. One of the subjects we cover is church history. I enjoy this session because you can see lights coming on for people. Most people enter the class asking themselves things like, “Why all the divisions and denominations?” or “Where this this belief or practice originate?” A great many of those questions get answered in our church history discussion.
Usually I do a fair amount of sketching on the white board when tracing this history. But tonight, looking around for some other information, I came across this wikipedia graphic. It’s simple but it paints the picture:
Doesn’t that about demonstrate the criss-crossed nature of Christianity? I suppose we could make this as complex as a plate of spaghetti, but this about does it.