Romans 12:1-6 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. 4 For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly

Thank God for the diversity found among those who have faith in Christ. We all think, speak, and act differently. We all have different priorities. We all have different measures of faith.

We need to be grateful for those who have faith in Christ, but are different from us; especially when we disagree. I am thankful for the more conservative members of my Christian family because they ground me in the Bible, in tradition, and in the surety and faithfulness of God. I am thankful for the more liberal members of my Christian family because they pull me out of the church and into the world; they force me to reach into the lives of the poor, the needy, the broken, and to meet their needs. I am thankful for the charismatic members of my Christian family because they draw me out of my self and into the reality of the awesomeness of God. I am thankful we are all different, because God is greater than our differences.

It can be hard to be thankful when you butt heads with a fellow Christian who is of contrary opinion; but, we should be thankful for the diversity we all bring to our Christian family.