“Jesus First”, “I Love Jesus”, or “Jesus Follower” can’t be a slogan or catch phrase that we apply only when the crowd and conditions are convenient.
Those words not only set us apart for His use, they set us apart for accountability and responsibility. Those words are a confession by which we will be judged by both heaven and earth (see Luke 9:23-24).
Isn’t it heartbreaking when followers of Jesus who share similar doctrinal understanding cannot dwell together in unity? When they can’t deal with their differences in opinion, preference, pet doctrines, misunderstandings, control, or conflict the way Jesus taught us to do?
It is not only heartbreaking to the Father but it is in direct opposition to Jesus’ prayer to the Father for us. How is it that we cannot accomplish what Jesus prayed for to the Father and gave us the Holy Spirit to help?
When the Father, Son, and Spirit are all in cooperation toward one goal and it fails, there is only one cause – selfish sin.
“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. – John 17:20-23
According to John 14, this heartbreaking act is due to a lack of love for Jesus. That’s TOUGH but it’s true.
Minimizing me...making much of Jesus 