The challenge is, if we don’t speak to the issues, we’re unclear for our own people; if we do speak to the issues, we divide our people. But you can’t not speak.” I disagree. Rather, if we don't speak, others will speak, claiming to speak for us. If we speak, but not according to the whole counsel of God, THEN we divide our people. We should not be speaking REACTIVELY when the Lord has given us the most PROACTIVE message possible. The pure Gospel breaks down the walls of separation. Ephesians 2:14–16 (ESV): For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.