Thankful for church splits!

"Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virgina..." - The Mayflower Compact

When you look at the history of organized Christiantity or the Christian church you see groups of people coming together and splitting apart as individuals strive to serve & worship God as they believe. A group of "Seperatists" living in England around 1607/08 were striving to worship God and believed that they needed to be apart from the Church of England. These "Seperatists" moved in 1609 as a church family to Leiden in the Netherlands, where the goverment was tolerant towards diverse religious views. In 1620 these "Seperatists" or as we know them "Pilgrims", started to move again by sailing to the "New World" aboard the Mayflower. After setting sail with about 100 Pilgrims and after struggling to survive that first year the 50+ survivors celebrated a Feast of Thanksgiving along with chief Massasoit and 90 Wampanoag men.

So today I am thankful for every blessing God has so generously placed before me. I am even thankful for a "church split" that occurred back around 1607 in a village called Scrooby located near Nottinghamshire in the English midlands.