Unity

 

 

It’s fall in Texas and that means it’s football season!  We enjoy going to games and watching them on TV. It’s quite a sight to see a stadium packed with 80 to 100 thousand people all wearing the same color, all cheering for the same team. The fans certainly don’t agree about everything, one might want them to pass the ball more, another wants a different quarterback to start, and so on. Despite that, they express a unity of support that transcends their differences.

 

Sad to say but Christians fall short of that same degree of unity. This has been a problem since Christianity began. The apostle Paul wrote sternly to the Corinthians about the divisions that had formed due to believers following different teachers, “I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought” (1 Cor. 1:10).

 

This is not to diminish disagreements between believers and denominations. We need to remember, though, that there is a great task facing Christians today; we need to have a unity of purpose in bringing people to Jesus. People should be able to look at us and see whose team we support.