How Is It That There Are Divisions In The Church? The Answer Is Simple!
by John Dulleck
How can it be that there are divisions in The Church? And when I refer to The Church here, I speak of the Universal Church, The Body Of Christ.
Well, I was reading John 17 today, “The High Priestly Prayer” of Jesus, and the answer jumped out at me. I will quote part of it here:
18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
'Like' The Poached Egg on Facebook! Follow @ThePoachedEgg 24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Jesus prays specifically that His Church be united, and in verses 21 and 23 He gives the reason, ”that the world may believe that You sent Me” and “and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me“. When we are One Body in Christ, united under One Lord, we are a powerful force in the world, proclaiming through our unity, that Jesus is the Christ, sent be God as a Savior to the world. That is what God intended for His Church from the beginning…
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How Is It That There Are Divisions In The Church? The Answer Is Simple!
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Glory be to the Lord, division started when as Christians stood by and let the progressive left change our nations long and deeply rooted history. I believe we're in tribulation period. Allowing the gay movement to get to the few states means it will be law of the land very soon. Pastor this means if you refuse to marry them. Means you break the new law of the land. Now either God is your law or you succumb
Posted by: notaobamafan | 01/12/2013 at 02:50 AM