PAUL AND BARNABAS

PAUL AND BARNABAS

THERE COMES A TIME

WHEN EVEN MEN OF PEACE DISAGREE

WHEN EACH

WITH ALL THEIR LIFE EXPERIENCE

DISAGREE

SO PAUL AND BARNABAS

DISAGREED

OVER MARK

PAUL

INTENSE

SINGLE MINDED

FELT MARK

HAD DESERTED THEM

AND HE ACCEPTED NO EXCUSE

BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT EXCUSE HIMSELF

BUT BARNABAS

A DIFFERENT KIND OF MAN

CUT FROM A DIFFERENT CLOTH

AN AVUNCULAR

TENDER MAN

WHO FELT

THAT MARK BEING

ALMOST A CHILD

WANTED TO SEE HIS MOTHER

SO THEY PARTED

BUT NOT HOSTILE

FOR LATER MARK

WOULD BECOME ONE OF PAUL’S RIGHT HAND MAN

WE IN THE CHURCH

HAVE COME TO SUCH AN IMPASSE

FROM OUR LIFE EXPERIENCE

WE HAVE COME TO DIFFERENT VIEWS

AND EACH I HOPE

IS WORKING OUT OF PURITY OF CONSCIENCE

NOT HATRED

FOR HATRED’S SAKE

WE CHRISTIANS

HAVE A FACILITY FOR HATRED

SO IF WE MUST PART

LET US PART WITH FRIENDSHIP

SO THAT LATER

IF ONE FINDS THEY WERE WRONG

ANGER HAS NOT SET OUR MINDS

TO NOT ADMIT IT

THE WORLD IS FULL OF DISSENSION

RATHER THAN ADD TO IT

LET US SET AN EXAMPLEOF BROTHERHOOD

FRANK A VOLLMER