In our city of 10 million there are very few believers serving here as missionaries and out of the ones who are here VERY few have children (hhmmm, wonder why that is ;-). We are blessed to know a few families here and today we happened to see all 3 of them in the same day. That might be some kind of a record ;-)
I love the common bond that comes simply from all of us being "foreign". This bond is about more than all of us knowing that bananas or ketchup on pizza is just plane wrong, no matter how you look at it - wrong!
We don't come from the same states, we don't work with the same organizations, we might not even be from the same denominations or read from the same translation but we are on the same team!
We have the same Father.
We all have a heart to advance the kingdom here and that unites us. I have a strong burden to help them in any way I can because I want to see them succeed.
It is so important as Christians that we concentrate on the things that we have in common, which far outweigh the things we may not agree on. Major on the majors and minior on the minors.
Jesus spoke so much about His followers being unified that it has to be a must for us.
"I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one--as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me." John 17:21
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