Letter to my Church family (part 4)

This is the final part to the letter I have written to my church family.

One thing that I feel we do very well in but still have much room to improve on is unity. God is a being of unity and is unified throughout all 3 of His beings, being Father, Son, and Spirit. God in His mission was unified and in His design and plan for the church was unified. Jesus in is prayer in John 17 prays for unity. Paul lists it as an attribute that the church must have. The Gospel is a story of good news that is unified around grace. Unity is an attribute that is everywhere and an atytribute that every church must have.

We as a church do have unity. We love each other, care for each other, and spread the gospel with great work. We care for one another and do not disagree in many matters. We are a church body of love that is warm and welcoming. Unity is in the core of who our church is and we are very good in many ways. We have unified over the spread of the Gospel. We have come together in many ministries and in the reaching of children, unity together in the work has taken place. We do unity very well.

But I also feel that we can do much better at unity. We find many times that we think church is about us. We forget that church is about God, Jesus, and the mission. Church will never be about us and the minute we find that we think church is about us, we leave unity behind. When the music becomes about us, we are not unified. When the sermons and teaching times become about what we want to hear, unity is not in us. When other ministries like men's. women's, or children's, become what we want to see, unity is not part of who we are. When we use our mouths to harm one another or say unkind words, unity is a problem. In many ways we lack unity and need to pray for unity more in us. Jesus was about unity in His church, that He bought with His blood. If we love Jesus, we must follow is example and be unified around Him.

So, to those whom I appreciate beyond words, I write these things to you all not to judge you but to love you all the more. To bring joy to our Savior with our lives. To spread the Gospel to the world father. And to bring us closer together, becasue only together can we bring about a change in our lives for Jesus and a change in our community for Jesus. I pray that you all feel my love and affection for you in these words and I I pray that these words and our lives glorify our Savior and Lord.