How is the church like the New Testament Gospels?

My big thought from Sunday school reading this week:

The New Testament has four Gospels; three are "syn-optic" -- they see Jesus together but each with a different perspective. The fourth one is way out there with its own perspective (arguably).

How is the Church (or my local congregation in particular) like the four Gospels? IMO: If we uphold the unity of the four Gospels as part of one book of God, while recognizing their differences, we should in like manner uphold the unity of the congregation/the Church universal while recognizing the diversity of perspective of Jesus & God within that body.

Dr. Ed Meadors always asked this question in his NT classes at Taylor: "What would you miss if this book/this pericope was absent from our Bibles?"

Similarly, we should ask: "What would we be missing if this person/this theological perspective was absent from our church?"

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"Make me a channel of Your Peace."

-St. Francis