Christianity as Tribalism

This is a must read article by Thabiti Anyabwile.

Our battle for sanctification reminds us that the war is won, the city captured, but there are still pockets of resistance in streets and small neighborhoods aligned with the old man. Our fight for less tribalism and more unity–a unity premised on like precious faith, defined biblical truth–continues apace the Molotov cocktails, rocks, and ambushes of a tribal instinct as old as Genesis 10.

But we can start with being honest about which stream we are in ourselves. Let’s stop characterizing others and cast a critical eye at ourselves. We do have logs to remove, don’t we? I suspect that a little truth telling to ourselves about our stream and motivation could go some ways in opening us up to seeing some issues and some people differently.

[http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/thabitianyabwile/2012/08/31/christian-tribalism-in-the-era-of-democratized-publishing/]