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Show UNITED IN FAITH "And hath made of one blood all nations of men all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the for to dwell on bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us; For in him we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17: 26-28a) " ... divided in all sorts of ways. There barriers to our coming together. We have We are are differences that different, act keep us apart. WE look different, live different, behave separated by levels of education, by financial status, by skin color, by work position, by political affiliation, by religious denomination, and even by beliefs. different. We are However, The Bible is clean that, under the skin, we are all the same. things that the Church needs in these difficult and trying days, it is unity. If there is one 1 psalmist wrote" Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." (133: 1) We need to find a way to come together and be one in faith. One God created all the world and everything that is in it. Surely, we have a common origin. The apostle Paul was preaching to the people of Athens about The their "Unknown God." He wanted them to know the power of united faith, that as one we can make the difference that God wants us to make. the Notice, the same text says, we are all made out of stuff. "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined before appointed, of their habitation." I know and the bound s how much like to but we we all bleed red. sense one point out our differences We are truly in the best brotherhood. Proverbs 22: 2 reminds that rich and poor are made by the same Lord. Paul reminds the Romans that to put us stumbling block before a another is to do harm to 2 one's own brother. (14: 13) Even our need to take in to consideration that brothers. (I Corinthians 8: made out of the Second, place, know " ... same we are to dwell we are 13) habits we are We have been blood. all made to live in the on same all the face of the earth." 1 going to the moon and to other planets but we would do well to remember that even when we go to another planet, everything we need to survive is prepared here. 3 |
