Last week's big news was the whole coalition government hoopla. Suddenly the man who did the worst campaign in Canadian history was poised to take over leadership of the country. Why? Supposed unity between the three opposing parties. However, it now seems Dion was not able to hold the coalition in unity and now it's old news.
The power of unity is an amazing thing. If you want to make a statement you can. If you want your statement to be noticed, make it with all the other like minded people you can find. All of your individual statements can do not hold the same weight as one unified statement from all of you together. This hit me as I received about 7 invites to various Facebook groups protesting the coalition. It seems to me that searching for a group that already exists and joining with them would have been better than every 5 minutes another group popping up. Chances are the one big group, unified in purpose, would have created a bigger stir than the 20 groups with 10 members each.
The church could learn this lesson too I think. Jesus desired unity for us. He prayed for it for us probably because he knew we'd fail miserably at it save by His power and grace. It seems to me we'd get a lot more done if unity was our goal. Too often churches see each other as competition not as co-laborers.
I really like what Lifechurch.tv started in its One Prayer campaign. I'd encourage you, find ways by which you can be united with more Christians. The is power in unity.
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"Too often churches see each other as competition not as co-laborers."
ReplyDeleteYa hit the nail on the head here, Timmy. Good call. Someone once told me, "Christians & the chuch in general have far more in common than they do the doctrinal differences that separate them."