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A Weekly Devotional from Max Lucado, February 16, 2005
Division Or Unity
by Max Lucado
Suspicion and distrust often lurk at God's table. Around the table the siblings squabble, and the Father sighs.
The Father sighs because he has a dream. "I have other sheep that are not in this flock, and I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd" (John 10:16).
God has only one flock. Somehow we missed that. Religious division is not his idea. The flock has one shepherd. And though we may think there are many, we are wrong. There is only one.
Never in the Bible are we told to create unity. We are simply told to maintain the unity that exists. Paul exhorts us to preserve "the unity which the Spirit gives" (Eph. 4:3, NEB). Our task is not to invent unity, but to acknowledge it.
I have two sisters and a brother. We are siblings because we came from the same family. We have the same father and mother. I'm sure there have been times when they didn't want to call me their brother, but they don't have that choice.
Nor do we. When I see someone calling God Father and Jesus Savior, I meet a brother or sister.
What would happen (I know this is a crazy thought), but what would happen if all the churches agreed, on a given day, to change their names to simply "church"? What if any reference to any denomination were removed and we were all just Christians? And then when people chose which church to attend, they wouldn't do so by the sign outside ... they'd do so by the hearts of the people inside. And then when people were asked what church they attended, their answer wouldn't be a label but just a location.
And then we Christians wouldn't be known for what divides us; instead we'd be known for what unites us-our common Father.
Crazy idea? Perhaps.
But I think God would like it. It was his to begin with.
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