Unity : Jonathan Crabtree

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Today at our fortnightly youth prayer meeting God laid something on my heart for the church across the country. Now I know the whole of England is a pretty big place and although the whole of england cant read this blog post you can see it and try and use it to help your life or your church. But most importantly god sees it and he is making it happen because the word came from him in the first place! This word was unity, unity for gods people in the UK. Now this is right out the dictionary, this is what the word unity means.
1. The state or quality of being one; singleness.
2. The state or quality of being in accord; harmony. 
3a. The combination or arrangement of parts into a whole; unification.
3b. A combination or union thus formed.
4. Singleness or constancy of purpose or action; continuity
5a. An ordering of all elements in a work of art or literature so that each contributes to a unified aesthetic effect.
5b. The effect thus produced.




We as the church, In the UK in particular have become divided, we have been separated because of slight differences in our belief and so have built walls between each other and started arguments that never needed to be started! How can anyone outside the church believe or agree with the message of the gospel when the people who are teaching it cant get on? In small towns there are turf wars between churches, churches splitting and dividing, how can we think about changing a generation for christ when we ourselves cant manage to love each other? We need to lay aside our differences and look at what really matters! Yes they might be baptist, yes they might be Pentecostal, but the fact is we are all christians and we all need to treat each other like the brothers and sisters in christ that we are! Churches across the country are crying out for help to god. "Our youth ministry is crumbling" "people are leaving the church" "we are running out of finance" when the fact is the answer to your cry could be around the corner in the next church! Your crying out to God, and god is saying I placed you two churches next to each other for a reason, but you are too busy praying at god to listen! Think about it, If every church in a town has 2 or 3 young people then if you all met together you would have a good 20 or 30 youth! and the fact is numbers attract numbers, when there are that amount of people coming, it will multiply faster than you can think! all it could take is a few steps into contacting churches and stepping out in faith! Look at the list of meanings for the word unity above. As the church, Gods bride, we need to act in harmony together, we are the components that make the engine of god on this earth, but an engine with missing parts wont work to its maximum potential! We need to include every part to make it work before we can make the car pick up speed! Lets get together, make steps to knock down the barriers set before us and unify the church again!

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