Focus: to align ourselves with Jesus' prayer and cross work to make us one.

Here is a helpful article on our passage:

The High Priestly Prayer of Jesus

These resources can help address the question of what is worth dividing...

Focus: on praying for the Spirit's needful enabling us to love one another.

Focus: calling the church to love our enemies, as God Himself has loved us.

Here is a helpful article on our passage by John Piper:

But I Say to You Love Your Enemies

To encourage us to serve one another in humility and to grow in our love for each other and for the Lord.

Focus: On loving one another as Christ loved us, so unity is preserved, Satan gains no foothold and the Spirit is not grieved

Focus: to warn the church against pridefully dividing the church, which is God's temple.

Resources:

Click this LINK for a helpful article on the church as a temple.

Focus: on loving one another as members of Christ's body, protecting unity and cherishing diversity.

Resources: Below are the videos that were shown in the service.

Piano Video

Unlikley Aminal Pairs

Focus: to call the church to “be the bride” by submitting to Christ’s headship and embracing His love for us.

Resource: Here is a link to a helpful short Bible study by R.C. Sproul, Jr. on the meaning of the church as the bride of Christ:

High...

Focus: on loving God back by loving the church/one another.