When you play enough social multiplayer Halo matches online it is inevitable… members of the opposing team that JUST finished playing a ferocious and contentious match against me get split up, with a few of them ending up on my team for the next round. And in many cases, these new “teammates” are still loyal to their real-life friends who are on the other side… and as a result they sabotage my team’s efforts to win through a combination of intentional “friendly” fire on my team, refusing to pursue match objectives, or intentionally costing our team points. They are still loyal to their original squad because their alignment with me is only a temporary situation.

The verse that commands us not to be “unequally yoked with unbelievers” is a challenging verse of Scripture to unpack. It is NOT advocating that we live our lives completely disconnected from those who do not share our faith or behave in a manner that is unkind, unloving, or uncaring towards them. The only way to reach others is to REACH out to them… but we must also bear in mind that anyone that does not have Christ seated on the throne of their hearts is guided by competing priorities that will reveal their true loyalties when conflict occurs. Let’s be kind to others always, while ensuring that all our alignments in life share a common commitment to the Lord at their core.

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14

And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:24-26

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