Unity in the Community: Praying and Acting on John 17:23 "Being One in Christ Jesus!" VFNKB.com

We have guests joining us today that have a call to unify the Church! Pastor Ron Lentine, with Myrtle Grove Baptist Church, Dr. James Miller, pastor of First Baptist Church of Warrington, and Pastor Riley Richardson with Myrtle Grove United Methodist Church. They share some great wisdom on how we can all be unified within our communities no matter our background or denomination.

Pastor Lentine starts the conversation and talks about how the Unity in the Community movement started in Pensacola, Florida. “There is a new thing the Lord is doing, a movement that is undoubtedly of God.”

We have a brief history of this movement and how it started. “This movement began in 2016 during the very heated and mean-spirited presidential election.  As I witnessed the riots in cities across the nation and the division that was taking place in our nation culturally, racially, and politically I was deeply troubled in my spirit.  I was convinced that there was no hope for our country outside of a spiritual awakening within the body of Christ. I was moved to action following the shooting of the police in Dallas, Texas.  It was that event that prompted me to call my good friend, Dr. James Miller, a respected African American pastor of First Baptist Church of Warrington.  I said to him, “Brother James, we need to do something.  We may not be able to affect any change in Washington, DC, but we can make a difference in our own neighborhood.”  So, the following day we brought our churches together during our Sunday night service…That night we celebrated and discussed the unity we have as family through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Following that event, we reached out to other pastors in our community of different denominations, races, and cultures.  Before long nine other church families within our… communities were onboard in our effort to build real Christian fellowship while we lifted up our Lord Jesus as the real source of unity and change and the only answer for our nation.  As the months went by, we continued to meet every two to three months in different churches.  The pastors would preach at these gathering meetings and the choirs and praise teams of the different churches would provide music.  A great spirit of love and unity was building stronger with every gathering event that took place.  In December of 2016 an idea came to my mind of the possibility of a unity march and rally down the main street of our neighborhood with people of every race and every culture walking side by side celebrating the transforming power of the gospel that unites us together.  As I shared this vision with all of our unity churches everybody supported the idea.  We set a date and began planning for what we believed would be an historical event in our community.  Little did we know just how historical and wonderful this “Unity in Our Community” March and Rally would become.”

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Jesus prayed for believers that we would be unified!

“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.” John 17:20-23

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