My Weekend Recap from last week was about unity. In light of the shooting which took place in Pennsylvania on Saturday (7/13/24), I thought it was important to circle back around. At Palmetto Shores Church yesterday, we took a brief moment before our sermon to pray for unity in our country and unity in the church.
Here is an excerpt from my sermon preached on 7/7/24 based on Psalm 133:
“So here is the temptation we find ourselves in right now as Christians in the US. We all feel the darkness around us. There is a rumbling of fear and discouragement from many who sense that we are somehow losing a grip on the world around us. But, what if the darkness of the world around us, which is characterized by so much division, strife, and polarization, has become the perfect backdrop for our unity in the church? What if our opportunity as a community to reflect something attractive to the lost world around us is only going to gain more and more traction the darker it gets. What could be more compelling to a fractured and polarized world than a community who—amidst all of their differences and preferences—actually display an attractive unity amongst themselves?”
This was the prayer of Jesus in John 17:22-23, “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”
The Lord Bless You
