The Call to Christian Unity

When it comes to the call to Christian unity we live in tension.  Through our redemption in Christ we were given the gift of being brought into the *unity of the Trinity*, which provides the model and source of our unity with our brothers and sisters. Although unity is a gift, we are to be active participants.   We are called to, make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. (Eph 4:3). 

Our Gathering on March 20^th was a beautiful expression of this.  We came together in our diversity male and female, young and old, clergy and lay, up-front servant, and behind-the-scene servant, light skin and dark skin.  We worshipped in English and in Spanish.  We gave thanks and celebrated the unity we our now experiencing together as well as the expectancy that God is moving us deeper and farther in the days ahead. 

God also brought us to face the painful reality that, “Our divisions are a monstrous act of disobedience.”  And that His heart is broken around our divisions and He invites us enter into this grieving with Him.  To feel this pain deeply, to sit with it and allow it draw us in humility, to own our sinful attitudes and actions that deepen existing divisions and even create new ones.  God met with us and gave us great grace to confess and turn from our sins and we experienced His forgiveness, cleansing, refreshment and renewed energy to, “Make the unity of the Body of Christ our passionate concern.”

**The importance of the unity and the Trinity

“Jesus came to reveal to humanity that God is not a solitary, eternal being, contemplating his own glory; he is not just an extraordinary Creator of a beautiful yet painful universe.  God is a family of three; three persons in communion one with another, giving themselves totally one to another, each one relative to the other.  And God created man and woman as a sign of the Trinity, he created them to be in communion, one with the other, in this way reflecting his Love.  God yearns for community to be a sign of this communion between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:  

‘That they may be one, as the Father and I are one’  John 17:11 

-Jean Vanier

“Divisions among Christians are antithetical to trinitarian reality. Father, Son and Holy Spirit form one communion into which God has incorporated redeemed followers of Jesus. As this one fellowship, composed of both God and man, grows in visibility, it will also grow in influence. It will foster the healing of human divisions. And mankind will know that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world”. John 14:20-23; 17:20-23

-George Miley

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