Jesus Prays for All Believers
Scripture
John 17:20-26
Commentary
After praying for
Himself and praying for His
disciples, Jesus prays for all believers.
Of all things for Jesus to pray for, He prays
for the unity of believers. While Jesus ministered,
believers were united directly through Him as they followed Him
and listened to His teachings. As Christianity took off
and spread throughout the world, Jesus would still be central
figure but He would not be the one to lead them all.
Even in the early church era, and especially
today, the church has disagreed on how to interpret things that
Jesus taught. This has led to unhealthy fighting amongst
Christians. There can be only one right interpretation but
on many issues it is not worth breaking the unity of the church
over. Only when we disagree on how one becomes saved
should we truly break unity and go our separate ways as then one
group is not saved as there are not multiple ways to the Father.
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