We have to agree…

Pastor Matthew Best
3 min readFeb 5, 2021

There are many, many disagreements going on in the world. That isn’t new. What might be new for many of us is the intensity of the disagreements. I think one of the reasons why disagreements have become so heated is that there is no longer agreement on basic foundational premises. Organizations reflect this. People reflect it also.

A premise is “an assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory.” ( Source)

A premise is foundational. Some basic premises are that the sky is blue when there aren’t clouds out. That 2 + 2 = 4. That there are 24 hours in a…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.