JOHN 17:20-23 | FEB 23-24 | ALBERT TATE
Three years of teaching, ministering, provoking, healing,
and friendship are drawing to a close. Jesus and his
closest friends are gathered for a final meal, a fact only
Jesus fully understands. At the end of the meal, he looks
heavenward and starts to pray: Father, make them one. He
knows that the coming hours will challenge them. He
knows that the coming centuries will be a challenge for all
of us, one that continually threatens to rip the church apart.
But the church can be one, united in Spirit and purpose!