Unity

When did we become so independent? When did our nation become so driven to isolation? By simply looking at our neighborhoods we can see that we are desperately trying to separate ourselves from whomever is living next door. Just by hearing our attitudes in our countless churches it’s obvious that we are desperate not to be associated with church X within a hundred feet of our worship centers. Of course there are those exceptions but overall most churches want to only invest in what will make their specific church more successful just as much as this nation that I dearly love only invests in what will make it more successful. Yet…who among us is not guilty of it? We surround our lives with people that will make us stronger, smarter, more successful. I believe that we must change this and began to form a unity in the church, a unity in our city and a unity in our nation. We can look to our founding fathers for wisdom:
John Jay writes in a letter to the New York newspapers in 1787, “This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous and alien sovereignties.”