My sister asked me to go with her to a new church she had visited on Sunday. They were having a Revival. So last night I went with her. They sang the same hymns that I grew up singing as a kid. I remembered every tune, every word of each song, just as if I had been singing them all my life. I haven't been to a Church like that in years.
I felt God there as I listened to the sermon about Jonah. That same story I have heard several times over the span of my life. The guest speaker was an evangelist and he preached like it was Revival. He got red in the face, and his voice got loud, and he'd clap his hands for emphasis. You know, Revival!
As he preached I was thinking, how is it possible that Christians who believe in the same God could be so distant and so unloving towards each other when I know that the same God last night in that Baptist Church, was in the Methodist Church down the street, and in the Catholic Church across town, and the Episcopalian Church 5 miles away, and the Lutheran Church, and the Pentecostal church....
What have we done? How have we gotten so far off track. Is the lesson supposed to be for us? Is it supposed to be for them? When are we going to get to where we put all of our differences aside and embrace each other and love each other and know that LOVE is the lesson that He has been waiting for us to learn?
LOVE as in Jesus.... 
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