Preston Yancey is hosting a beautiful series on the church called #ATLT, At the Lord's Table: A Conversation, and today I have the privilege of being a contributor. My piece is on unity. I hope you're as moved reading it as I was writing it. Please stick around on Preston's site to read others' posts on the church.
That They May Be One
That They May Be One
“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”
- John 17:23, ESV
The first time I felt the glory of God, I was at a small Catholic church in Mesa, Arizona. A black woman—a bellowing alto—sang “Amazing Grace” while I wept under the power of a Jesus I did not yet know.
Years later, after believing and committing to this Jesus, I worshipped Him at a charismatic prayer gathering in London, England. I knew little about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but a girl prophesied God’s response to questions I had asked Him in quiet desperation earlier that day. I came to know Jesus as a responsive God.
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