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ONE PRAYER is Unifying the Church

June 01, 2008


ONE PRAYER is an initiative that was launched by Craig Groeschel and LifeChurch.tv (well, probably, technically by several partnering churches too, but Craig's head is on the video).

The idea is simple: a bunch of churches are getting together to do a series called "One Prayer." It's a 4-week series on your "one prayer" for the Church. BUT you give the first message in the series, and for the remaining three messages (a-ha!), you use videos from other pastors (like Groeschel, Ed Young, Perry Noble, etc).

The cool thing about this is that it's helping promote unity between the various, independent, distributed pieces of the body. It's encouraging working together! They're even using the site to raise money to plant 500 churches overseas! Hotness!

They've already enlisted almost 1,000 churches, representing over 500,000 believers. That's powerful. Brings a tear to my eye. I'm so excited that there's a movement to help unite Christ's stereotypically divided Church and perhaps approach Christ's prayer that we would be one as He and the Father are one.

What does this mean for the Church? Do you think we're lacking unity? If so, what do you think OnePrayer will do for us?