:: Tim Gillespie, at the One Project Atlanta.

This meant so much to me as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian .

…letting go of labels, mine and theirs.
…letting go of my defensive religion.
…finding brothers where I had seen foes.

With all the love in my heart that I have for academia (yes), one thing that has weighed heavy on my heart about it is that in our search for the truth we have to discriminate among all the professed truths and call some falsities and so we (un)/(sub)consciously foster this intellectual culture of suspicion. And when the area of your study is theology then everything matters eternally and everything (not-so-)subtly begins to affect our spiritual vision. 

But when my spiritual vision fails to see you as my sister, my brother, then something is carnal about my “spiritual” vision.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

If I know the truth, if I speak the truth, if I study the truth, if I publish the truth, but have not Jesus and His love, then I’m a waste of the truth.