"When Jesus prayed for His disciples that they would be one as He and the Father are one (John 17), the focus of His prayer was unity. While unity among ourselves was obviously a direct result of the oneness Jesus prayed for, I am convinced that it was His secondary, not primary, meaning. The oneness He spoke of first and foremost deals with our communion with God. This is critical because only in oneness with God do we find wholeness and integration.
God created everything to be in proper relationship with Himself. He is the source of all that is good. It is good for everything and everyone to be in relationship with Him. When we are one with God, we find both wholeness and integrity. Integrity is born out of relationship with God and flows into our relationships with others. Integrity is the personification of truth. When we build our lives on truth, and live by what we know is true, we begin to live from the inside out."
Erwin McManus, Uprising.
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