Christian Unity Is Easy to Praise Until It Costs You Something Real
A new docudrama featuring Francis Chan asks what happens when unity moves from slogan to practice — and whether modern Christianity is willing to pay the price.
Christian Post reported this week on the release of “That They May Be One,” a new docudrama featuring voices such as Francis Chan and James Ward and built around Jesus’ prayer in John 17.
Because unity is one of the most admired Christian ideas and one of the least practiced.
Real Christian unity is not the denial of difference. It is the refusal to let difference become total estrangement.
Those habits include: learning to speak truth without contempt, confessing real sins against each other, refusing caricature, and remembering that the church belongs to Christ before it belongs to any faction.
And hardening is one of the central spiritual dangers of the age.
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3 Takeaways
- Christian unity remains one of the church’s clearest public challenges.
- Unity is not the denial of difference, but the refusal to let difference become final estrangement.
- Modern Christianity needs habits of communion, not just rhetoric about oneness.
Bottom line: Christian unity is easy to celebrate at the level of slogan and almost always costly at the level of practice. That is exactly why the church keeps needing reminders that Jesus prayed for it anyway.
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