What would it be like?

John 13:34-35
34"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

For some reason, this message of Christian unity keeps coming up around me...Bible study, messages, music, random conversations, and it's really so sad that the most important job we have, what should be the simplest, is the most difficult to get right. The church can't get it right, and so the world sees divisions and avoids the church because of the hypocrites. As one of those imperfect people who make up the church, I say that's just a convenient excuse, but I also know the church bears responsibility for that view. We squabble and fight, judge and pronounce judgement, draw lines over unimportant issues and miss the chance to show the world that we are Christ's disciples.

I like this song because it's happy. Happy like we'd probably be if we could get over ourselves and really learn to love one another, in the body of Christ first, then the rest of the world.