I have given them the glory You have given Me. May they be one as We are one. I am in them and You are in Me. May they be made completely one, so the world may know You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me. - John 17:22-23
What is the greatest evidence of "Christ in us?"
Jesus said that He gave us (yes, this pericope is about those who would later believe the apostles' message. namely us) the glory that His Father had given Him in order that we should be made completely one as He and His Father are one. And then He said that He wanted this to happen because it would send a message to the world that Jesus had been sent by His Father and that He indeed loved them, too.
Hmmm if this is true then the greatest evidence of Christ in us must be the unity of the saints. For it is this unity, this cohesiveness that presents a consistent testimony to the world of God's love through His Son.
Why does the world remain unreached? Fractured and fragmented, we will continue to fail.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. - Augustine of Hippo
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