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How do you create unity among people who don’t want to be unified?
If you look at America, roughly 90% of people have their heads screwed on straight. It’s the other 10% that are on the extremes of the right and the left. The message that continues to be spread is to “just love one another”. The 90% are the ones who share this message of love over and over. However, once the 10% do something extreme, they rope in the rest of the nation and the message of being unified and loving one another gets tossed aside, maybe for a week, a day, or even just for a few hours. The sad thing is, even though it may just be a few hours, the priorities of everyone come to light. It’s clear, even through the message of “just love one another”, that what’s most important to each individual, especially during difficult times, is their own beliefs and opinions. Since people’s priorities are really that transparent, the reality of the nation is a very sad sight. The reality is this… everyone says one thing, “just love one another”, while showing through their actions that they truly don’t understand what it means to love, while showing through their actions that their individual priorities outweigh the plea for unity. After all, actions speak louder than words. The truth is evident, people do not want to be unified when it gets in the way of their own beliefs and opinions. So that goes back to my original question… How do you create unity among people who don’t want to be unified?
People Need The Truth
One of the characteristics of generation Z is their strong will to find the truth. That characteristic isn’t limited to just Gen. Z, however, it is becoming a nationwide search. People no longer want to be told what to believe, we want to find truth, we want to search and dig for something tangible. In order to bring people together, to truly unify them, we need to present everyone with truth. The truth that to become one, to be unified, we MUST set aside any beliefs and opinions that get in the way. For example: If you put a republican and a democrat in the same room and tell them to “just love one another”, they might get along for a little while. However, once politics come up they will no longer be unified. What if, we take away the possibility of politics coming up? What if each side commits to removing their own beliefs and opinions from the equation? We’re then left with two people who have nothing in between them. Now, they truly can love one another. This truth isn’t a new realization. For centuries, people have come together, nations have been born, empires have been built by the simplicity of putting aside personal agendas. However, those relationships, nations and empires eventually crumbled, because someone decided that their own wants and needs outweighed the wants and needs of everyone else. This truth will never change, in order to maintain unity, you must put others before yourself.
People Need A Better Way
If people truly don’t want unity, but instead just want their own way, why should we expect anyone too except this truth and put away their own agendas? Well, we shouldn’t expect that from anyone, unless there is a better way! What if we could offer everyone in America, everyone in the world even, a better way than their own? What if there was something people actually wanted so bad they would leave their own opinions behind to join? What if everyone, male and female, black and white, republican and democrat, masks and no masks, regardless of personalities chosen or not, heard a better way than their own? What could this nation or even this world possibly look like? What we need is a something so great, that everyone wants to choose it over themselves. What we need is something so powerful, that everyone wants to follow this better way. What we need is something so perfect, that everyone wants to drop their own agendas because they realize that their own opinions are less than perfect. If only there was something this good, powerful, and perfect that everyone wanted to come together for, right?
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
-Dillon Bruce
