"And in him you too
are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his
Spirit." (Ephesians 2:22) We are being "built together," of
course, by Jesus Christ, who should be the source of our unity. In this verse,
Paul isn't speaking about a particular congregation or denomination. He's
speaking about the Body of Christ - the church universal - the community of
believers. We should set aside the things that divide us and focus on that
which unites us - Jesus Christ. Then God dwells in us and works in us and lives
in us by the Holy Spirit. One of the things that makes me happy to be in the
United Church is that our founding was the result of Presbyterians, Methodists
and Congregationalists setting aside the things that divided them into those
groups and deciding that what united them - faith in Jesus - was more
important. As followers of Christ (in whatever denomination) we need to stop
talking about unity and start living it - working together, setting aside
suspicion and mistrust and rivalry, sharing mission (and maybe even worship!)
and simply being the one body of Christ, without judgment on each other. May it
be so! Have a great week!
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