We Are One...

Jesus's two major commandments were to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and to love your neighbor as yourself. These two things are the very basis of what each of His stories, parables and lessons came down to. Even in His final prayer to the father we see the same plea- begging the Father for unity.

In John 17, a chapter dedicated to completely to the final prayer of Jesus, John portrays one common message throughout the entire prayer- unity. Unity between the Father and Son, the Father and the Church, the Son and the Church, and one that we tend to forget, the Church and the rest of the Church. So many times we fail to see ourselves as one body of believers, but rather the America image of a "Tossed Salad". You have your Catholics, your Baptists, Methodists, etc. but very rarely are we merely called "Christian". If someone asks you what religion you are, I can almost guarantee that we will answer "Baptist" or so on. As a matter of fact I made the same mistake about a week ago.

If we really want to see the Church living up to its full potential of healing and reaching in the world today, we must seek that final plea of Jesus- unity with the Father and Son as well as with ourselves.