KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Oneness
JESUS PRAYED THAT all who believe on him may be one...
This prayer is a cutting rebuke to a plurality of churches. We know that Jesus did not pray for oneness and turn around and establish many churches to create division. Such fickleness would be the blackest work of hypocrisy. Every time a man says that Jesus is the author of many churches, doctrines and divisions, he accuses the Lord of hypocrisy. It is equivalent to saying that Jesus was not sincere and honest when he went to the Father in prayer in the behalf of oneness. It is an accusation against the purity and integrity of our Redeemer. (Leroy Brownlow)
KneEmail: “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me" ( John 17:20, 21).