One accord with one voice

Reading 2ROM 15:4-9

Brothers and sisters:
Whatever was written previously was written for our instruction,
that by endurance and by the encouragement of the Scriptures
we might have hope.
May the God of endurance and encouragement
grant you to think in harmony with one another,
in keeping with Christ Jesus,
that with one accord you may with one voice
glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you,
for the glory of God.
For I say that Christ became a minister of the circumcised
to show God’s truthfulness,
to confirm the promises to the patriarchs,
but so that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy.
As it is written:
Therefore, I will praise you among the Gentiles
and sing praises to your name.

Friends today think about what the apostle Paul is saying here in Romans.  We are to be in harmony with one accord as one voice. One. As a church we are called to be one and yet we love in a day with thousands of Christian denominations. Is that one friends? No. That's thousands of groups that focus more on what divides them than what they have in common. Friends so much of our faith is a mystery but the church is not. It's not the invisible church. The church is real and tangible and friends Christ started one church. Let's be one, let's focus on what we have in common. Let's let go of heretical beliefs and sacrice our pride and pursue the truth.  Let go of what you believe they sounds good but isn't true. Do this by endurance and encouragement of the scriptures as Paul writes about. 

Praying for you friends and petitioning God to bring us to be one church as the bible talks about where we can glorify God together

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Anita