In the Garden of Gethsemane on the night He was betrayed, Jesus prayed that His disciples would be one just as He and the Father are One. But that doesn’t mean we should be cookie-cutter duplicates of one another – all striving under our own power and by our own will to do the same old things we believe are “the right things to do.” Rather, it means that we should be united under the guidance of God’s Spirit that by His power and in His will we may apply the individual spiritual gifts that He has given all of His children. If we rely upon our own power to accomplish the things we ourselves have determined, we will be ineffective in accomplishing the mission God has assigned to us – to share the Gospel of eternal salvation in Jesus alone, and to raise up disciples of Jesus to carry on the mission of building God’s Kingdom together in true unity of mind and spirit.