Although some adults tried to keep children away from Jesus, he welcomed them in Mark 10:13-16 as models of how to enter the kingdom of God.
Our little work of accepting each other in the church is part of the big work God is doing in the world.
There are two basic principles that enable Christians with differing convictions on debatable matters to live together in harmony in the church.
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.