Although the first post concerning Dr.Mirus may not be the most telling example, it demonstrates once again the divisions and "parties" within your church. In this season of ecumenical good-will between RC and Lutherans in Sweden and Anglicans in the Rome event, it is not only we children of the Reformation  who must deal with factions within each church . Perhaps it's not as negative as it seems.

I'd like to suggest this provides a template for how adherence to essentials, the Creeds, the Lord's Prayer, the Councils of the undivided early church, and the more recent theological statements of doctrinal confluence between Rome,  Lutherans and Rome-Canterbury can lead us onward. The old argument about divisions within Protestant churches being a total stumbling block rings less true when one considers that the +Chaput version of your church is very unlikely to materialize. Hence there is at least de facto diversity.  There is but one Christ Jesus, all else a dispute over trifles.