20 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 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. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 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.
My thoughts -
In John 17 Jesus prays to God for his disciples, and then he goes beyond that and prays, starting in verse 20, 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."
Not being a Biblical scholar maybe I'm missing something here but it seems to me that Jesus is praying for all Christians to be as together as Jesus and the Father are. How close to that are we? How can we get there? Can we? Should we? These are questions I don't know how to answer.
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