Unity

Is Christian unity possible or just a dream? Can different denominations and organizations that claim to follow Christ get along and work together? Can we have an effective witness to the campus and to the world without it?

These are the questions that we will seek to sort through this year at the unity service at Ball State. Every year all the Christian organizations on campus get together to plan a worship service for Ball State christians to come together as one body to worship the Lord. I (Josh) get the humbling privilege to speak this year at the Unity service. My message is going to really focus on one thing- unity is a means to an end. By that I mean that unity is not the end goal and that unity for the sake of unity is nothing, because it is ultimately about us and our glory showing the world what we can do. We have seen that before (Gen. 11) in the tower of Babel and that didn’t go so well. God judged that unity. But, unity is a good thing when it is a means for something greater: God’s glory displayed in the person and work of Jesus. When unity is about worshiping Jesus, then we have something. When its about showing our campus that we have something that is worth laying aside our differences for, that is worth worshiping, that is worth sacrifices, that is worth our unity, then we have something that will cause someone to take notice. (I’m still working on my message- so I might be slipping into writing my sermon manuscript right here!) When we get this right, that unity is ultimately not about unity but about Jesus, then God can use that for incredible things. Please pray with us that God would use this service and my message to challenge the Christians (and draw non-christians to Himself) to not pursue unity to make themselves look great, but to display how great Jesus truly is in Himself!