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The Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton, the founder and leader of\u00a0House United<\/a>, explains during the most recent edition of \u201cLeading Theologically\u201d that the organization took shape about 15 years ago \u201cwhen I started to see the people I like in the left wing of the church and the right wing of the church didn\u2019t like each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem was they didn\u2019t know each other. They were speaking from a distance and stereotyping one another,\u201d Hilton told the Rev. Bill Davis, the host of Leading Theologically, which is airing a series on reconciliation. Listen to their 44-minute conversation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Hilton facilitated the first\u00a0Courageous Conversation<\/a> about a marriage amendment that had been proposed in Minnesota. \u201cWe had 425 people come out and talk to one another who disagreed,\u201d Hilton said. \u201cThat set the hook for me on a calling to try to get left and right, different cultures and races, talking to each other rather than assuming things about one another from a distance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Transformation can occur through experiences, he said, such as building a house together or serving alongside one another at a soup kitchen\u00a0\u2014 \u201cthings they would have done anyway as Christian folk,\u201d Hilton said, \u201cbut they do together so they know one another a bit. They start to like one another and they can\u2019t believe it because they know what each other thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ice kind of melts a bit. It\u2019s not a \u2018Shazam and it\u2019s over,\u2019 but there\u2019s an opening for engagement that wouldn\u2019t have been there if they hadn\u2019t come together,\u201d Hilton said. \u201cIt\u2019s experience-based ministry, and a lot of the stock-in-trade ministry is conversations \u2014 big-room conversations, small, family conversations, corporate team conversations \u2014 anything that will help a group realize they can collaborate and their differences are assets rather than threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

As workshop participants get to know one another, \u201cthey listen better to what the people think and why they think it,\u201d Hilton said. Hilton likes to hear from people \u201cwho have brought together difference for a living\u00a0\u2014 military folks, sports coaches, business people who know they can make better widgets if they get more diversity in play.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his 2018 book \u201cA House United: How the Church Can Save the World<\/a>,\u201d Hilton makes this argument, as Davis points out: \u201cWe 21st century Christians come by our divisiveness honestly. \u2026 The earliest churches battled one another over everything from how to distribute the offering plate money to which of their prophets spoke truth and which falsehood, to whether Moses\u2019 law provided access to God or threw up a blockade on the pathway to God. In fact, the same Johannine community that gave us the gospel with Jesus\u2019 prayer for Christian unity<\/a> also gave us one of the most striking versions of early Christian division.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is some of the history we have inherited as the church and followers of Christ today,\u201d Davis said. \u201cHere is my wondering: What can we learn from the early church about how to be reconciled to one another and to God?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilton responded that within about a half-century of Jesus\u2019 public ministry, Matthew \u201cillustrated the necessity in Jesus\u2019 mind of going toward one another when we harm one another<\/a>.\u201d In Matthew 5<\/a>, Jesus speaks of the urgency of leaving our gifts at the altar to make things right with our siblings in the faith whom we\u2019ve wronged. \u201cThe center of reconciliation in Jesus\u2019 economy is kind of clear from those two passages and a whole lot of others,\u201d Hilton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is, original unity is a myth. A lot of people think the early church was perfect and then things fell. The early church wasn\u2019t perfect,\u201d Hilton noted, \u201cand it\u2019s a consolation for many folks to realize that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Rev. Bill Davis<\/p><\/div>\n

Davis returned to Hilton\u2019s book: \u201cIt\u2019s time to challenge our culture\u2019s unproven and unconsidered assumption that flocking with birds of our own feather produces flourishing lives, individually and nationally. It\u2019s time for us to ask, \u2018What would it look like, how would we read our news, how would we choose our neighborhoods and our churches and our friends, how would we even treat one another in a church and nation that could properly be called a house united?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The two sides and their splinter groups \u201care consuming very different pictures of the world,\u201d Hilton told Davis. In former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse\u2019s book \u201cThem,\u201d Hilton cites the chapter on why we turn to like-minded people. In one study, sensors were attached to the heads of people watching their favorite broadcasts on FOX News and MSNBC. \u201cIt turned out the part of their brain that lit up is similar to the part of the brain lit up by friendship and by opioids,\u201d Hilton said. \u201cIn a lonely culture, we have people who substitute the talking heads on the screen for actual friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the 12 men Jesus selected as disciples, \u201cIn that group are two opposites on the most political issues of his day,\u201d Hilton said. \u201cThat\u2019s outlandish human resources work. You have Rachel Maddow<\/a> and Sean Hannity<\/a> in the same 12-person room, and yet Jesus did that, and I don\u2019t think he was just showing off. I think he was saying, \u2018This is a better way to live.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Figuring out the issues Jesus saw as important is as easy as dividing his teachings into two groups, Hilton said: orthodoxy and community, \u201cwhat to believe and how to be together.\u201d There\u2019s \u201ca whole lot more about how to be in community than there is about what to believe or think. It wasn\u2019t very long before the church inverted that,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that inversion has hurt the ballclub.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the cohorts he leads, Hilton said that progressives often recoil at \u201cincluding the non-includer,\u201d while with conservatives there\u2019s\u00a0\u201csometimes an orthodoxy pushback.\u201d<\/p>\n

For progressives, \u201cthere are people in the room whose identity and life are being called into question by the person who, for instance, doesn\u2019t think gay marriage is blessed by God,\u201d he said. When he talks to conservative participants ahead of time, \u201cThey will be in tears at the prospect of going into the room because they know they\u2019re the ones who are going to be stigmatized \u2026 and [be] the obviously wrong ones. That\u2019s hard for progressives to appreciate, because they picture conservatives as the strong bully, and it\u2019s not my experience that\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inclusion should be much more than \u201cWe\u2019re so good, we\u2019ll allow you in,\u201d he said. A friend taught him this lesson: Inclusion happens because \u201cwe need you. Who\u2019s missing among us? We can\u2019t be as much of a shalom community, we can\u2019t be as much the body of Christ, if you\u2019re not a part of us. You have something we don\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Jesus tried to combat arrogance wherever it happened, and we\u2019ve got so much arrogance right now,\u201d Hilton said. \u201cIt has to start with, \u2018We don\u2019t have all the answers, and mine may be wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading Theologically is a mission and ministry of the <\/em>Presbyterian Foundation<\/em><\/a> and the Theological Education Fund. Find out more <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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