Tuesday; November 12
As Jesus was preparing His disciples for His death, He sat them down and had a pretty straightforward discussion with them. The most detailed description of this meeting is found in the Gospel of John. While there are several topics discussed, a couple of them should definitely catch our eye. The first one is “love”. When Jesus prepared His disciples for taking His religion public He told them, “ By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35). Not long after that, when He was praying for the future of His believers, He laid out the plan for unity by asking, “… 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.” (John 17:21). Love and unity would not only be a requirement for Christianity, but it would also be how people (even outsiders) would be able to identify His church...