The word of the apostles is a testimony all should know, and those who believe because of this testimony should become one, just as the Lord Jesus and the Father are one. This unity makes all the harvested souls one church. It is unity at the level of spirit. When we minister in spirit to one another we experience that unity of spirit. When we are harvested by the one Lord of the Harvest, we become one people, in spirit. God is a spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. This transcends church names like Orthodox, and Catholic, and Methodist, but it also transcends cultural and ethnic barriers. Indeed, Jesus was addressing such barriers when he preached the way of spirit and truth. He was there preaching to a whole Samaritan village which had come out to hear him and believed what they heard, and believed in him. His disciples came and saw it, saw how it all started by Jesus preaching prophetically by spirit to a Samaritan woman: So surprising this was to his disciples. The Samaritans who believed could not integrate at all easily with the disciples and Jews to whom Jesus had previously preached. A divided following was inevitable. Jesus addressed it from a spirit point of view. Each one learning to worship by spirit in truth, as God desired, would experience unity with each other. Spirit transcends. Truth transcends. So still today, there are various groups divided culturally, yet if we look at each group, even at each individual, when they each worship in spirit, experiencing by spirit the same truth, and expressing it in worship towards the God who is spirit and true, they are being made one, under authority in their spirit of the same one Lord Jesus Christ, drawn in their spirit to the same one Father. We have a gospel of Jesus as the Christ raised from the dead by this Father, having died in submission to this Father’s will, and leading us to each of us live by the same way of spirit by which Jesus also lived. We have a gospel of the Holy Spirit being sent to each one, like a single fire which separates into many tongues of fire, each one settling on the head of an individual in their prayers, as these believing followers of Jesus gathered together. We have a gospel teaching each one and all gathered together to live by the spirit. The one gospel of Jesus, as revealed also to Paul for Gentiles and Jews as one, that teaches us that the teachings of Jesus are spirit and life. We must live by such spirit, and the teachings given since then by the Holy Spirit, as driving the apostles such as Paul, so that we become spirit-driven individuals instead of flesh-driven, instead of mere mentally-driven individuals, and at this level we find unity transcending all the barriers. Then we will be worshipping God together as pleases Him. We will be a Temple for the living Father, who is one and uniquely God.
