A Follow-up on the Previous Post about Why Unity is Perhaps Difficult

Imagine if we could/would treat others and other denominations as if their members were better than us. And, we could do this. But, it is sort of like the old Smokey the Bear commercial which said: "only you can prevent forest fires,” since it really is our individual responsibility. This doesn't mean you're going to be doing like what Steven Wright used to say in his comedy routine: oh my God, bringing out buckets of water every night non-stop. The reality is that this idea is not farfetched.  Saint Paul had something to say about how we should treat others in his Epistle to the Philippians. Philippians 2: 3-5 reads as follows:

“3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. 5 Let the same mind be in you that was[a] in Christ Jesus … (NRSV).”

                                                                 

Obviously, if we actually regard others as better than ourselves and other do the same towards us, we might get this ecumenism thing nipped in the bud very quickly. Of course,  I don't have the older manuscripts for Philippians, but I'm sure even looking at things from  the political spectrum it doesn't say in this verse to treat others, except Trump or Hillary, it just says treat others (everybody else's besides ourselves). I hope we get the idea correct. I think I will stop here. I simply wanted to expand a little more on the previous post to sort of hit the nail on the head. Blessings!

Reference:

NRSV Bible