Facebook and Christadelphian Unity
Spend some time on the Facebook website, and you get a feel for reality. Isn't it ironic that we look to a non-Christadelphian website for our greatest sense of unity? Doesn't God work in interesting ways?
It's ironic, alright. Ironic because I've been trying so hard to help people appreciate how we (as humans, as Christadelphians, as Arkansans, as Americans, as owners of vehicles and workers of jobs and parents of children) are so similar, yet I always keep coming up empty. In contrast, the guy who's running Facebook isn't trying at all to unite Christadelphians, and he's doing it!
How so, you may ask? By making OBVIOUS the FACT that we're all the same. You can't help but see yourself in others' pictures. You can't help but appreciate the at-most "six degrees of separation" in our tightly-knit community. It's obvious that we're all in this together. Obvious that we're waiting patiently (and anxiously, sometimes) in our One Hope and One Spirit, for our One Lord's return. Obvious that we share the One Faith, as the One Body, having been baptized into the One Baptism, provided by our One Father!
The wonderful thing about it for me, through what I see on Facebook, is that, try as people might, it CANNOT be denied!
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Funny but I have found the sight to be most discouraging. Divisive in itself and there are only a few that post and most of those that do are not even involved in the issue with the NA Christadelphians.
The fact is the unity effort right now has nothing to do with the whole of Christadelphia but with a select few who leave God out of the equation and are seeking there own agenda. I know this sounds negative and it is however it is a fact and the truth.
for the record...when i posted this, the movement on facebook had not even started. to me, it's sort of like the concept of "one body." that One Body exists is a fact, declared plainly by Eph 4. how encouraging! yet we see all these efforts to unite different fragmented versions of christadelphians and other types of believers....which is fine - noble efforts indeed, to try to make peace amongst fellow-believers! but the point of this facebook observation (again, before any formal efforts were taking place), was that we cannot deny the truth - the FACT - of the existence of unity amongst fellow-believers, and that facebook bears that out. simply put, i saw a few pictures of fellow-believers who are actively 'excluding' me, associating with other fellow-believers who don't exclude me but who might exclude others, etc. etc. etc. it's a shame that ANY exclusion is happening, but that's life, eh? the point is, i'm not going to get worked up when someone excludes me, except to encourage that person to think seriously about their actions...exclusivity is such a shame to us...
which is what prompted the next post - be a uniter, not a divider. it's possible to make peace in one's life, to be dedicated to peacemaking.
'and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.'
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Amen!