Unity - A Crippling Charismatics Domain

I once shared my dreams for unity with a national leader - to which he replied: " I dont get the church unity in a town thing, i just dont see the point of even trying, for a start - the revelation for it probably came through the prophetic, most of the prophets who have been given voice are in the charismatic churches, unity will be centred around them, which means every gathering will be heavy on their culture style and trappings................... to the exclusion of many others - So whats the point of bothering?"

Well - exactly - what is the point if thats the scenario

There was a great picture someone shared this weekend in London, that they saw their city full of little lights, like christmas tree lights, but they didnt all come together to make one big light - instead there was these lightening sparks of acitvity between them, causing a connection between them all across the city.
Its not about getting them together - style and culture are unlikely to be the issues.

Its so sad that we think unity can be expressed in some way through our leaders - that if a pastors network exists then we have unity. Or - that because we have found a successfully mediating way to gather lots of different people into the same place for worship and word - unity exists. Start with centred thinking - end with centred thinking. Isnt that one fruit of pastor teacher foundations in the church - that everything gathers in and keeps 'in' - how they love thier gatherings to be visions that something is working or dissapointments that it is not.

Unity happens when we are no longer doing thinsg which keep us separated. Unity already exist in Christ, We ARE UNITY, we just do things - SINFUL things which separate off Gods unity.

When jenny from the tribe of anglican, and tommy from the tribe of pentecostal and fred from the tribe of households can be in their same workplace, not as representatives of the church or elsewhere, but of the church of wherever they are in Christ name and he is with them, that the kingdom is extending because they are not seeing unity as a yet another meeting to pamper them or survive the work place when they are not 'in church of elsewhere'. Then i believe we are seeing the evidence and hopefully the fruit of something much deeper of 'unity' of 'common union' taking place.

If doctrine is where we start - then our great our HUGE understanding of very little - will have undermined much.

Amen

oh - can i put this qoute in in style and stuff:
"We have a tendency to spiritualise our culture to the point that something uttlerly transition becomes spirtually eternal. We need to not hold onto culture which is in constant transition - but we do need to hold onto spiritual truths which are of enternal consequence"

Know of anywhere, anything or anyone where culture has been spiritualised to the point that something in transition has now become a hinderance, a stumbling block cause our flesh has tried to make it of eternal importance?