It’s All About Jesus? Right?

In the 1890s there was a small Baptist church in Mayfield County, Kentucky. 

The church had two deacons who were constantly arguing and bickering over some issue or the other. One of them put up a small wooden peg on the back wall so the pastor could hang up his hat. When the other deacon discovered the peg, he was outraged. “How dare you put a peg in the wall without first consulting me!” The people in the church took sides and the congregation eventually split. 

Today the residents of Mayfield County still refer to the two churches as Peg Baptist Church and Anti-Peg Baptist Church.

What does that have to do with Jesus? What does that have to do with the mission of the church to make disciples and grow faithful disciples who share God’s love with all people? What does that have to do with anything resembling the purpose of the church?

Churches today would never get sidetracked by things like that, right?

Right?