The Key to Christian Unity is Humility with Francis Chan and Metropolitan Yohan

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🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We are thrilled to present a series of conversations between our dear brothers in Christ, Francis Chan and Metropolitan Yohan (aka KP Yohannan). These conversations were initiated by criticism that Francis Chan received as a result of publicly discussing the history of the church and the Eucharist and inspired by our desire to promote dialogue on divisive issues within the body of Christ in a spirit of brotherly love to honor the high priestly prayer of our Heavenly Father just before His passion on the cross “that they may all be one…so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” (John 17:21) On behalf of Francis Chan and Metropolitan Yohan, we hope that these conversations will inspire you to inspect Church history, encourage you to engage in dialogue with those that you may disagree with and live the answer to our Lord’s High Priestly prayer that we may all be one. “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:35)

The Key to Christian Unity is Humility…. is the second episode in this four part series of round table conversations and addresses the prayer for unity made by the Lord in His High Priestly Prayer “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.” Many have said that the first step towards unity is humility—so how do we humble ourselves and pursue unity over the essentials of the historic Christian faith despite our differences?

Topics discussed include: Francis Chan addresses the issue of tribalism between Christian Churches and how to reconcile that with the Lord’s High Priestly Prayer that we might be one (0:25); can we unite over the essentials of the historic Christian faith by appealing to the maxim “in essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty and in all things charity?” (6:45); what we can learn from the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican as we engage with believers in Christ from different Christian traditions (12:30); a lesson of inclusivity that Metropolitan Yohan learned from George Verwer after writing Revolution in World Missions (14:10); the greatest doctrine is love (18:15); the criticality of working towards unity in the body of Christ in response to the Lord’s High Priestly Prayer “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” (20:45); responding to Francis Chan moving to Hong Kong (24:35); Francis Chan discusses his love for evangelizing to those who have never heard the name of Christ while also feeling convicted about inviting people into the family of God while there is disunity in the body of Christ (28:15); the answer to the Lord’s High Priestly Prayer starts with humility (33:50).

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0:00.0	I want to talk about something you brought up earlier and you say, yeah, maybe we'll get to that about.
0:30.0	But it has to do with this issue of the tribes versus the tribalism.
0:37.2	Okay, so lately I've been reading books by Eastern Orpans, that the tribes versus the tribalism.
0:42.7	Okay, so lately I've been reading books by Eastern Orthodox writers.
0:48.4	And if I'm honest, sometimes it feels like a tribalism there of those who are outside of the church.
0:53.0	And so for me, who I've been outside of the Eastern Orthodox Church,
0:58.8	it's a bit offensive, you know, when you read of it. I almost understand it. Like if I understand,
1:04.7	okay, if I lived in the first thousand years, I could understand that type of thinking because there was basically one church.
1:13.8	And everyone outside of that, you would quote First John and say, well, they left us because
1:18.6	they're not really of us.
1:21.0	But now, here we are in, you know, in the year 2020.
1:27.4	And there are, as you mentioned,
1:30.7	tons of tribes and God's people,
1:33.7	you even call them God's people, are all over the place.
1:37.5	And yet I read some of this stuff
1:39.2	and it feels like, no, in the Eastern Orthodox Church
1:42.4	almost feels like, no, those are all outsiders.
1:45.5	We're the true church.
1:47.7	And so even when you mention, you know, here's what the Roman Catholics did and here's what the Protestants did.
1:55.9	And it feels a little bit, it's going to be offensive, even the statements, you know, making
2:06.4	those statements.
2:09.0	I'm just trying to figure out what to do with it.
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