Stay Together | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 8, 2021
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🗓️ 8 December 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, I'm Mike Whitmer, and I wrote today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. It's |
| 0:11.3 | entitled, Stay Together. Dooberry Baptist Church split in the 1800s over a chicken leg. |
| 0:20.9 | Various versions of the story exist. |
| 0:23.6 | What the account told by a current member was that two men fought over the last drumstick |
| 0:28.3 | at a church potluck. |
| 0:30.9 | One man said, God wanted him to have it. |
| 0:34.4 | The other replied, God didn't care, and he really wanted it. The men became so furious that |
| 0:40.0 | one moved a couple kilometers down the road and started Dewberry Baptist Church number two. |
| 0:46.7 | Thankfully, the churches have settled their differences, and everyone concedes the reason for |
| 0:52.5 | their split was ridiculous. |
| 0:55.8 | Jesus agrees. |
| 0:57.7 | The night before his death, Jesus prayed for his followers. |
| 1:01.7 | May they be one father, just as you are in me and I am in you. |
| 1:06.3 | May they be brought to complete unity. |
| 1:08.6 | Then the world will know that you sent me. |
| 1:13.7 | Paul agrees. He urges us in the book of Ephesians to make every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace. |
| 1:19.9 | There is one body and one spirit, and these cannot be divided. We who weep for Christ's body broken for our sin, must not tear apart his body |
| 1:30.7 | the church, with our anger, gossip, and clicks. Better to let ourselves be wronged than be guilty |
| 1:38.4 | of the scandal of church division. Give the other guy the chicken leg, and some pie too. |
| 1:49.6 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Ephesians chapter 4, |
| 1:54.6 | verses 1 through 6. As a prisoner for the Lord then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. |
| 2:03.5 | Be completely humble and gentle. |
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