Unity the Community Can See: Local Ecumenical Collaboration

Jesus' prayer that his followers "may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me" (John 17:23 NRSV) suggests that the unity of Christians is observable by the larger community and is a means by which people come to know the love of God. Yet, our local communities too often reside where the current divisions of the body of Christ are most directly observable. This workshop invites participants to envision new forms of local ecumenical collaboration as manifestations of the community of unifying love that God is bringing to be.

Led by Steve Harmon | Professor of Historical Theology, Gardner-Webb School of Divinity