DIVERSITY AND UNITY

Revelation 7:9-10 (NIV)

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”

This vision of God’s Kingdom diversity in heaven is our prayer and passion. But we don’t want to wait until Glory to experience it. We long to create it already and increasingly here on earth. Our hope is that The Way MicroChurches will prophetically reflect the diversity of God’s people in all their beautiful array. Our prayer is that we will be Kingdom outposts of God’s coming world in this world. May the world see in the spiritual families of our MicroChurches, brothers and sisters of all ethnicities, social classes, education levels and economic statuses living together in loving unity as the Body of Christ.

John 17:20-23 (NIV)

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.