“There was no better way of waiting for God’s promise than in prayer…The disciples prayed for the sending of the Holy Spirit…

One Accord – “The word denotes the entire harmony of their views and feelings. There were no schisms, no divided interests, no discordant purposes. This is a beautiful picture of devotion…”

The image is almost musical; a number of notes are sounded which, while different, harmony’s in pitch and tone… The Holy Spirit likes to blend together our lives to make beautiful music…

Before we see tongues of fire, we see unity… God is giving us a hint as to what our church needs, and what every church needs, to be all God’s called us collectively to be…

What placed them in one accord: It wasn’t their backgrounds, social status, gender… It was the One they were seeking…

Unity doesn’t mean we lose our culture or personal identity… They are fine and mean something… They just cannot be what binds our hearts…

If you’re a Christian it doesn’t matter how different you are than me, we need to have fellowship, we need unity… we need each other… one odd thing about our unity though… The very thing that unifies us is the very thing that divides from many…

Unity is messy, but only in love and our common seeking of Jesus is it found… “God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.”

If we can love as Christ loved us, if we can devote ourselves in seeking Him, one accord is within our grasp… Let us be the contrast the world needs…

Let our loved ones look at our church body and see both diversity in perspective, race, social standing, background… and yet see unity, and a place saturated with the love of Christ…

In a time of disunity and hatred let us be a light house of unity and the love of God despite our apparent differences…”

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