Dr. Zan Holmes once told the story of a famous novelist who died several years ago, leaving a list of plots for future stories that were never written. One of them was this: “A widely separated family inherits a great house in which they
have to live together.” Said Dr. Holmes, “This is the great problem for humankind. We have inherited a great world house in which we have to live together: black, white, brown, yellow, and red; Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Protestant and Catholic, Christian and Muslim.”
Do you remember the old children’s song? “Red and yellow, black and white, they’re all precious in his sight.” What a reminder for the world today; what a reminder for America. However, when I attend a conference of the International Council of Community Churches, of which Imagine Church is a member, that’s what I find: red and yellow, black and white, all worshiping, meeting, and serving together. How remarkable that the church attempts such unity amidst such diversity!
But that unity is never more apparent than when we share communion 
together, as we will do this coming Sunday at Imagine Church. Because in the sacrament of communion, we all sit at the same banquet table, and eat from the same basket. We realize how alike we really are, and how much our need is all the same.
You can celebrate that unity this Sunday morning, along with your sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ. That which unites us is that we have all given the same answer to the same question: When God has called our name, we have answered yes. That is what unites us, what binds us together, despite our differences. Out of God’s great love, we all become one.
