8) As Christians, we need to live lives of unity -- in Christ -- which is so important to God and to our witness. In these days of increasing evil and decreasing societal affiliation with the Christian faith, we need to reassert and live out our oneness in Christ -- just as we have been commanded to do by our Lord.
Jesus prayed for our unity: “I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.
May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me… that they may be one as we are one — I in them and you in me — so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” John 17: 20-23.