How well do you treat other Christians with whom you disagree theologically?
Here’s an example of how J. L. Reynolds, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, and stalwart defender of Baptist convictions, treated his disagreements with Presbyterians. In the first paragraph, you’ll observe how strident his disagreement was at the level of principles. Then notice in the second paragraph how he talks about them personally:
The recognition of uncoverted persons [infants], as members of a Christian church, is an evil of no ordinary magnitude. It throws down the wall of partition which Christ himself has erected and obliterates the distinction between the church and the world….A Church that welcomes to the privileges of Christ’s house, the unconverted…in reality, betrays the citadel to his foes…They have mistaken a device of the enemy for the work of God. They hailed, as they thought, an angel of light; they have received Satan. I admire and love the many sincere and zealous Christians that are found in such Churches; but I fear that this Trojan horse will finally prove their ruin.
…I impeach no man’s motives; nor do I question the piety and sincerity of those of my Christian brethren who believe
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