Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

John chapter 17 verses 20 through 23. I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will

believe in me through their word that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me,

and I in you, that they also may be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

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 have sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. Did you hear this prayer of Jesus

for the church, for all those who would believe in him, that we would be one, just as the Father

is in the Son, and the Son is in the Father. This Trinitarian unity is the kind of unity

Jesus prays for us as the church. So we might be together in the Son and the Father,

so that you're the purpose clause in verse 21 so that the world may believe that the Father

is sent the Son. Do you hear that? The world will not believe that the Father sent the Son

when the church does not experience the unity that Jesus calls us to experience

in him and in the Father. Do you see what's at stake? Our unity in the church and the spread of

the gospel in the world. They go together. We want the world to know that God loves them,

then we work with an eagerness of Ephesians four to maintain the unity of the spirit of God in

the church. So can we just pray for that? God in each of our local churches, we pray for unity

around you, around the Father and the Son and the spirit we pray for this unity that you have,

oh God, and your Trinitarian nature to mark us in our churches. God helps us to guard against

division. God remove to vision we pray in our local churches and God across our local churches,

as we all hold tightly to the gospel that saves us and your word that's our authority. And as we

have different convictions about things that are less clear in your word or preferences in our lives,

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