Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. There is a direct crucial connection between unity in the body of Christ and the spread of the Gospel in the world.

In this first part of a shared session at Biola's yearly missions conference, Francis teams up with David Platt to unpack the mind-blowing invitation of God from the Gospel of John to enter the oneness Jesus shares with the Father.

And then share that unity with one another so that the world may believe.

All right. Well, we decided we're just going to get up here together and see how the Spirit leads us.

We've never done this before, but that's, you know, we're just going to trust the Spirit. We've both been in the Word, we both believe God's put thoughts in our minds, we've been friends for years.

Actually, it started right after you wrote radical, you know, when you copied Crazy Love and just, he just gave it an orange cover.

Right, to clarify. To clarify, I had written Spirit Radical and my wife was reading Crazy Love and she was like, did you copy Francis?

I was like, I haven't even read. I don't know Francis. I haven't read what Francis was like. Well, it sounds like you copied him. And so anyway, we met soon after.

Yeah, we met at a passion conference and then I'm, you know, and it was just immediately we just hit it off.

And I'm saying, and what's the Lord putting on your heart? And he goes, I feel like the Lord wants me to create this discipleship material.

And the discipleship has to be at the center of the church. I'm like, that's the same thing that's been on my heart.

And I was working on the same thing and we're like, well, why don't we just do this together and make one resource?

Because if we can't partner how similar we are, theologically and everything else, then what hope is there for unity in the church?

And so I feel like this is a little bit of an extension of that as we've both grown and maybe even differed in more views lately.

We could list them. Yeah, yeah. We could just debate about them right now.

But that's what I would just say.

A couple things. One, I was just thanking God this morning for this brother like he loves Jesus and every time I'm around him.

I love Jesus more as a result of being around him. We just spent time together yesterday and just so thankful.

And for to make the connection of what he just said, we don't agree on how to understand every text here.

We are rock solid in our unity around Jesus and the gospel and the authority of this word.

But there is a depth of community that and family that's found Romans 14, 15 talks about this.

When we even have some differences on things and we live in a world that like polarizes and divides and I know that's part of our heart.

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