We give our hand...we meet around the cross

Our unity with Christians does not require full agreement on
doctrines such as election, particular redemption, etc. I love these words
of Charles Spurgeon:
“We give our hand to every man that loves the
Lord Jesus Christ, be he what he may or who
he may. The doctrine of election, like the great
act of election itself, is not intended to divide
between Israel and Israel but between Israel
and the Egyptians. Not between saint and
saint, but between saints and the children of
the world. A man may be evidently of God’s
chosen family and yet, though elected, may
not believe in the doctrine of election. I hold
that there are many savingly called who do
not believe in effectual calling and that there
are a great many who persevere to the end
who do not believe the doctrine of final perseverance.
We do hope the hearts of many are a
great deal better than their heads. We do not
set their fallacies down to any willful opposition
to the truth as it is in Jesus, but simply to
an error in their judgment which we pray God
to correct. We hope that if they think us mistaken,
too, they will reciprocate the same
Christian courtesy. And when we meet around
the cross, we hope that we shall ever feel that
we are one in Christ Jesus.”