Joining in the Oneness

“We are not called to become one like the Father and the Son are one, we are called to join in the Father and the Son being one.”

What does it look like to join in the Father and Son being one?  I have been thinking about this for a while and I ended up here. Which comes first: knowing the Father and Son so well and so intimately that I can then enter into the oneness? Or entering into the oneness initially which then leads to the knowing and intimacy? If it’s the latter then I still have the same question… How?

Then I am brought to this line of the sermon: “The oneness that Jesus wants for his disciples and the church PARTICIPATES in the oneness that is God.”  Or if you will… partici-relate, thank you Steve. God is inviting me to partici-relate in His relationship with Jesus. And this is made possible because like Paul says in Acts 17:18, IN HIM we live and move and have our very being! (DJ says “Linger here for a little while longer…. like the rest of your life.” Classic.) I have been created in the image of the oneness of the Living God which gives me access to partici-relate in the oneness of the Father and the Son.

A theme I have noticed in Darrell’s preaching/writing is that he always brings up the “-ing point.” By that I mean he always addresses the fact that relationship with God is not a one-time thing or something that happens in a specific moment, rather always ongoing. We are continually participatING in the oneness that is the Father and Son. DJ says we are eternally indwellING in the Father and Son as they are eternally indwelling in each other. It is a constant, daily, hourly invitation to join in the oneness of the Father and Son.