Christ Insight

Based on:  Ephesians 4:1-6

One of Aesop's fables goes like this.  A lion used to prowl around a field in which four oxen used to live. Many times he tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way the lion tried to attack he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, they started arguing among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then the lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all four.  What is the lesson?  United we stand, divided we fall.

Today is Unity Sunday.  Is this little story from Aesop's fables a good illustration of the unity we have here at St. John's?  I think you find some similarities, but also some important differences.