Unity

John 13:34-35, 17:20-23

On the night before His crucifixion, Jesus broke bread with His disciples and before He offered up His body to be broken, He prayed for the unity of all believers , so that the world may know. This is to be the outcome of unity in the church: that the world may know the truth of the Gospel by our love for Jesus, for each other as believers, and for all who may not yet know the truth. However, if we constantly display disunity, our testimony is invalid. We cannot display loving unity as God and Jesus do, while at the same time showing to all that we cannot or will not agree.

Questions for further thought:
1. Is your testimony one of attractive unity?
2. If not, how will you change?  

Challenge: If you are a people (church) that always seem to be at odds with one another, you will never be attractive to an unbelieving world. Work towards unity by applying some of the Biblical principles that we will discuss this week.