I stumbled upon your site with your sermons and have found it interesting about you thoughts on open minds. I have heard of many christians that shut other christians out due to the fact that they do not think 100% the same way as the pastor and the leaders of a church. Through my vast years and travels with my life I have found the riches church communities have people with many different interpretations of the Word. Each of the persons is walking in the faith with the Lord and doing their walk with the best intentions and the best ability they have. As enviroments change in churches with time, we as christians must sit back and realize that each person that has a christ commitment had their own way to walk it- neither you nor I are right and we should not condenm them from the journey. We must keep open minds and hearts to those that we have shut out, hurt or ignored along the way. We all need to go back and ask those forgivenesses to those that we spirtually injury along the way.

I hope that your church has this enviroment that you preach about, as it is very healthy and will lend itself to many styles, personalities, talents, depths of faith and only enhance the discipleship that we as christians strive for each day in our lives.
God Bless.