Our Lord’s Plan of a United Church
“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine. And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me, that THEY MAY BE ONE, AS WE ARE. . . . I have given them THY WORD; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, even as I am not of the world. SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH. As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also that shall believe on Me through their word; that they ALL MAY BE ONE; AS THOU, FATHER, ART IN ME, AND I IN THEE, that they also may be one in Us; that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given them; that THEY MAY BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE; I IN THEM, AND THOU IN ME, that they may be made perfect in one; and THAT THE WORLD MAY KNOW that THOU DIDST SEND ME, and hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me.”