Backwards compatibility is typically one of the most controversial topics during a new console announcement… when Sony launched the PS2, it was fully compatible with the full library of PS1 games. But only select models of the PS3 supported playing PS2 games, and the PS4 was not backwards compatible with ANY games we owned on the previous PlayStation consoles. But after years of moving in a direction that left so many gamers behind, Sony listened to their fans and chose to launch the PS5 console in a way that offered the best of both worlds… a digital version for those who preferred digital options, and a disc-based system that would support playing almost every title in the PS4 library. We are all gamers, but some of us are in different phases… and there’s room for all at the table.

In a world designed to divide us across every possible point of difference or disagreement, we are called to unity in the body of Christ… and that means actively pursuing peace with each other and understanding that some of us are still at the PS1/PS2 phase of our faith while others are playing the game on a digital-only PS5. We are all growing in our relationship with the Lord and His truth, so let’s show all the “backwards compatibility” of grace today… uncompromising truth must always be accompanied by His love.

Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. Romans 14:4,10,19

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-2

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