Jesus prayed, “Father, may they be one so that the world will know you have sent me.”
John 17:26
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He was praying this over you and me. No matter our country, culture, church or upbringing He needs us to be one. Why? This is was not “unity for the sake of unity.”
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There was a specific reason: so that the world would know of Him.
Jesus himself was connecting our togetherness with our effectiveness.
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The challenge is that you and I are human; we are frail and sinful.
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We can be like John the Baptist’ disciples who told John that Jesus was baptizing more people than they were.
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And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
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In the conversation in John 3:22-30, you can almost hear them imply the divisive comparison: “us vs them.”
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What can help us overcome this?
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In 1 Corinthians 12:12, we find an answer from Paul: “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.”
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It’s always been God’s design that we work together for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. Co-laborers with one purpose. A synergy where the combined effort is more than the sum of its parts.
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But what if, by God’s grace, our strengths and weaknesses could bring us together?
Satan’s plan has always been for our differences to divide us.
Think of what could be accomplished!
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