There are some divisions we can’t opt out of. Within a congregation, though, within our outpost of the body of Christ, we have a duty to be unified as much as we can. Our unity isn’t based on believing the same things, but on being connected to Jesus. We owe it to each other to work for the good of the whole.

God calls his servant to more. God calls Jesus—and calls us—to bear witness to the whole world about what God is doing.

Wise men from the east, wherever that is, came to visit Jerusalem because they knew that a baby, a new king of the Jews, had been born. Whatever humans might have expected about the birth of the Messiah, this wasn’t it.