A Cry for Unity
I know, the title seems sad. But I am still going to have my chocolate milk moment. Soooo finals are coming up and I just want to say one thing to you, my peers. CRAP.
Seriously, CRAP. Now, onto the important things.
I titled this blog post a cry for Unity because I read Acts ch.4 and immediately was astonished and very pleased when I read the story of John and Peter before the Council. A whopping 5,000 people gathered together and were praising the Lord, proclaiming his name and they were all being as bold as Peter and John were. So these guys were brought before the council and surprisingly enough, they told the council that they will not stop proclaiming the name of Jesus, and the 5,000 people behind them were definitely not about to stop. So the council literally sits there and talks about how they cannot punish them because they don't know what to do! How awesome does that sound??! (Pretty awesome to me, I mean I'd love to see that happen)
I also continued reading and all throughout our Acts selections there were words written about how large bodies of believers fellowshipped together and had all things in common. It repeated the phrase "had all things in common" at least twice, and I sat there and thought to myself: "what if we had all things in common today?" To which I immediately began to think- there is absolutely NO WAY that this will happen in a million years now because let's face it, there is hardly any unity. Even between us Christians! I find that to be very difficult to bear because we judge and despise one another even on our Christian Campus. And of this, we are all persecutors and persecuted, which sucks. WHY do we have to be disunified? We are one body, with one heart and one mind but yet every single part of that body is troubled because of disunity.
If WE are not a unified body of Christ, how can we go out into the world and unify others?
So my encouragement, or my cry, today is that we stop with any sort of judgment that we have towards any others and go forth with outdoing each other in honoring one another and lifting each other up, ESPECIALLY when we don't deserve it.
That's my soapbox for this evening. Stay thirsty (for chocolate milk) my friends!
I commented on Sydney and Cody E's posts.
Seriously, CRAP. Now, onto the important things.
I titled this blog post a cry for Unity because I read Acts ch.4 and immediately was astonished and very pleased when I read the story of John and Peter before the Council. A whopping 5,000 people gathered together and were praising the Lord, proclaiming his name and they were all being as bold as Peter and John were. So these guys were brought before the council and surprisingly enough, they told the council that they will not stop proclaiming the name of Jesus, and the 5,000 people behind them were definitely not about to stop. So the council literally sits there and talks about how they cannot punish them because they don't know what to do! How awesome does that sound??! (Pretty awesome to me, I mean I'd love to see that happen)
I also continued reading and all throughout our Acts selections there were words written about how large bodies of believers fellowshipped together and had all things in common. It repeated the phrase "had all things in common" at least twice, and I sat there and thought to myself: "what if we had all things in common today?" To which I immediately began to think- there is absolutely NO WAY that this will happen in a million years now because let's face it, there is hardly any unity. Even between us Christians! I find that to be very difficult to bear because we judge and despise one another even on our Christian Campus. And of this, we are all persecutors and persecuted, which sucks. WHY do we have to be disunified? We are one body, with one heart and one mind but yet every single part of that body is troubled because of disunity.
If WE are not a unified body of Christ, how can we go out into the world and unify others?
So my encouragement, or my cry, today is that we stop with any sort of judgment that we have towards any others and go forth with outdoing each other in honoring one another and lifting each other up, ESPECIALLY when we don't deserve it.
That's my soapbox for this evening. Stay thirsty (for chocolate milk) my friends!
I commented on Sydney and Cody E's posts.
We are so split up as Christians by denomination and arguing over semantics we forget about the people who have not heard the good news or don`t believe. The small details can be sorted out later in heaven since all we need in Jesus. There are people who need to hear about Jesus now.
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