{"id":360,"date":"2015-01-21T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=360"},"modified":"2015-01-27T23:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T04:47:48","slug":"what-can-you-accomplished-when-you-are-unified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"What could we accomplish if we were united?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians are not united, not as a whole, not in really effective numbers.\u00a0 We have dominations.\u00a0 Within denominations, we have churches.\u00a0 Within churches, we are often divided into small groups or cells.\u00a0 We are divided, not united.\u00a0 I can remember as a very young child, during the civil rights movement, how the African-Americans rallied together, with the most prominent leader being Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0The civil rights movement changed America.\u00a0What does it mean to rally?\u00a0\u00a0It means &#8220;to call together for a common purpose.&#8221;\u00a0 <em>American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition (2011).<\/em>\u00a0 Christians need to rally.\u00a0 They need to come together for a common purpose, to motivate another change in America, a change towards Christian values, the values that America was founded upon.\u00a0 Think about what people are able to accomplish when they are united, even for the wrong reasons.\u00a0 Do you remember the Tower of Babel?\u00a0 After the great flood that destroyed the earth, God told the people to spread out over the earth.\u00a0\u00a0They rebelled against God and rallied together\u00a0in a concerted effort to build a tower that would reach the heavens.\u00a0\u00a0Consider the voices that are heard in American today.\u00a0 They are the voices of the minority but their voices are united so that they can be heard.\u00a0\u00a0I think the various church denominations split us up &#8211;\u00a0they prevent us from being united.\u00a0\u00a0The bible tells us, &#8220;A house divided against itself cannot stand.&#8221;\u00a0 Imagine what we could do, if we could truly unite, if we could become a unified body, a unified church, seeking the desires of God, making His voice known.\u00a0 Imagine what we could accomplish for the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians are not united, not as a whole, not in really effective numbers.\u00a0 We have dominations.\u00a0 Within denominations, we have churches.\u00a0 Within churches, we are often divided into small groups or cells.\u00a0 We are divided, not united.\u00a0 I can remember as a very young child, during the civil rights movement, how the African-Americans rallied together,&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=360\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}