Standing together...

I'm posting from the annual conference of the Association of Interchurch Families in Derby, England. This evening we (the young adults' group) ran a prayer meeting, taking part of eea3's theme - 'the light of Christ shines upon all'. We used some of the material from the study guide and had a meditation on John 1:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

All around Europe, while the main assembly is running, Christians will be meeting for services and discussions and prayer vigils. In this way, we stand together, despite the miles between us and say as one 'Christ is our light'.

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Tomorrow, during our closing worship, we will stand together as Anglicans, Catholics, Methodists, URC etc...as Christians and recite our creed "We believe in one God...". This is the moment of the conference I will carry in my heart to Sibiu. There is vastly more that unites us than divides us.