PRAY WITH US about divided we fall separately: Father God, we exalt You to the heavens. We thank You for sending Your Son Jesus to bridge heaven and earth. For You have called us to witness to all His authority in heaven and on earth. But instead we have become a house divided. Too often we witness in our own names rather than the Name above all names.
Yet in our different ways and different gifts You have given, You have called us to manifest Your Way. So bring our diversity into unity. Show us how to love one another as You have loved us. Help us to appreciate what You have given each of us to give. And use those gifts to build Your church, separating what is not You from what is truly You. For You will answer Jesus’ prayer that we become one, just as You are one. In Jesus’ name, amen.
PRAYER ALERT: Divided We Fall Separately, United We Stand Together
In Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he wrote “To the churches in Galatia.” But in his later letter to the Corinthians, he wrote “To the church of God” in Corinth. He wanted to emphasize their oneness as a church in God.
Yet the Corinthians wanted to emphasize their differences. One faction called themselves by the name of Paul, one by Apollos, one by Cephas—another name for Peter. Another called themselves by the name of Christ. Instead of uniting them, the name of Christ divided them. Why? Because they used Christ’s name to set themselves apart from the other factions.
So Paul responds, “Has Christ been divided?” (v.13) We learn later in this letter that the body of Christ does consist of different parts. But God gives “to each one…the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good” (12:7).
God wants our differences to work to the common good, not to divide us. “But one and the same Spirit works all these things…and all the members of the body are one body. So is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body” (verses 11-13). Therefore, don’t divide the body of Christ in anyone’s name.
Paul goes on to say, I didn’t get crucified for you. I didn’t baptize you in my name. No, the Spirit baptized them into one body and one name, the Lord Jesus Christ (verses 13,17)…
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