Christ prayed for you!!

It's Passion week - the time after Palm Sunday where Jesus is welcomed into Jerusalem to cheering, and before his crucifixion just days later. 

Just before his arrest, Jesus is distraught and retreats to the Garden to spend time with his disciples and alone in prayer.  The gospel of John records Jesus' prayers for them, and one of my favourite passages:  a prayer for all believers:

John 17: 20b-23 "I pray also for those who will believe in me through [my disciples'] message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—  I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

At CCS, we believe that Christ was praying for us!  As we celebrate this unifying event for all Christians, we pray for increased unity going forward - that we may show the world God's love and good news!!!

Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again!