Let's take a quick walk down memory lane and the 2015 World Series. Fantastic! If you are a Royals fan, that is. Many were amazed that they were able to pull it off. How did the Royals win? One reason is because they worked together as a team. They were unified with one goal in mind. Ever watch a team that doesn't work well together? Any sport really: football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, etc. If a team isn't working together for a common goal, they will not win, or they won't win well.
Almost anyone who has ever played a sport or belonged to a team of some kind had probably heard the phrase. “There is no ‘I’ in TEAM.” The same goes for belonging to the body of Christ. There is no ‘I’. It isn't about us. Never has been. Never will be. When we believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and receive his grace and forgiveness we are no longer alone. We are part of the body of Christ working towards a common goal; loving God as we love others. Jesus, after praying for his disciples, prays specifically for us; those who will hear and believe the message of the gospel delivered by the disciples. That's us. And what does Jesus pray? He prays we will be one body, that we will be unified just as Jesus and the Father are unified working for one purpose. And not only that we work together as one body but that we remain in the love of God so His love may flow through us. What differences might you need to set aside in order to be one in the body, unified with your brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the world? John 17:10-26 Jesus Prays for All Believers 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” Sent from my iPhone
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AuthorThe Pastors of Cornerstone Wesleyan Church Archives
July 2017
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