Ken Howcroft.”Fishing for Unity!” A sermon for the third Sunday after Epiphany and in the Week of prayer for Christian unity. It is of course dangerous to pray for Christian Unity, just like it is dangerous to pray for anything. You ask God for things, you tell God what you are wanting or hoping or wishing for, and as soon as you open the door a chink, you may find the Holy Spirit slipping in and changing the way you look at things, transforming your mind into the mind of Christ, and so changing everything you are and experience and do. Jesus called his rag-bag group of followers his family. The one thing about family is that you cannot choose your relatives. Some of the worst arguments and tensions are inside families. You might not get on with them, but you cannot get rid of them. It is just the same in the body of Christ. Jesus calls us out of our comfort zones to be part of one family with people we do not necessarily approve of or like. He also challenges us to adjust our priorities. So are we prepared to let the Holy Spirit transform our minds into the mind of Christ, and our whole beings into being parts of the body of Christ? Are we prepared to respond to Jesus’s call to us to become his disciples – a call that is both comfort and challenge?
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