Differences

     "All people do not want to be on the same road." This is a quote by a man , Barry Lopez, who wrote a book called Horizon. Mainly it concerns his observations about our interactions on the environment  over the last three decades.  But I find this quote to be instructive of  other things. 
     Hegemony, is defined as leadership, dominance, dominion, and supremacy, and lastly, authority.  Now here is where I am going with this.  In Christianity, we are admonished to be of one mind and one accord. Why?  Because in Christ, there can be only one truth. But as we all mostly know, we have diverged, and have gone on many different roads.  As the quote above highlights.  In Christ, we have become something we were never  before. United in belief that one died for all .  How that is represented is key.  Not only for individuals but corporately as the Church.  If we are all "divergent" in key and basic beliefs then we are diluted and weakened.  Christianity is only as strong as we embrace those precepts that Christ himself proclaimed, not only of himself, but of the Kingdom of God he preached. It has been evident  to me for decades, that Churches in general hold to the basics, but differ greatly on the presentation and the power of the Gospel. And this in turn, creates many roads to God.  Wide is the gate that leads to destruction, narrow is the way, that leads to life, few, therefore find it. I marvel at times, how it comes to us, this revelation of the Gospel of good news, in the midst of so many roads that offer something other than  truth.  Pilate asked Jesus, "what is truth?." 
     Truth, plain and simple is Jesus, manifest in flesh and blood, modeled for us as perfect, without sin and made sin for us, so that we may live.....better than we were before... with power by the Holy Spirit and overcomers, destined to rule with "hegemony" in a new Kingdom. Peace.