Is whatever is anti-unity. Because Christ is pro-unity: “that they may be one as we are one.”
God’s self is a unit. If the doctrine of the Trinity bears any real importance on how we humans live, it is this: God demonstrates how the multiple are to be one. And this unified nature is what he desires his family to reflect out into the entire world—a world that is desperately divided. I hesitate to say “a world more divided than ever,” because that really may not be true. But I at least feel like it’s accurate to say “a world on a downward spiral of division.”
A divided world cannot recognize a unified deity that it cannot see in disunified people. A world that is sick with the disease of division cannot find a cure among a divided religious people. A religious face slapped onto a building that is crumbling from within reminds me of Jesus calling the religious leaders of his day “white-washed tombs.”
God is a unifier. So must we, his people, become as a reflection of his holy nature. We must be pro-unity, peacemakers, lovers of even our enemies. Anti-anyone else is anti-Christ.
