I love the photo of a rugby match where teams are grappling in the mud—and enjoying the game. May the game of loving service come to be enjoyed by the diverse families of the professed followers of Jesus.
During the past two thousand years, the unity of Christianity has repeatedly been split; and now we have thousands of differing families of the professed followers of Jesus. To unite these families, the Urantia Book proposes a new understanding of Jesus and his teachings with an emphasis on loving service.
195:10.16 (2086.2) The great hope of Urantia lies in the possibility of a new revelation of Jesus with a new and enlarged presentation of his saving message which would spiritually unite in loving service the numerous families of his present-day professed followers.
How is this project introduced earlier in this section of paper 195 from which we have taken this proclamation of hope?
195:10.1 (2084.1) The world needs to see Jesus living again on earth in the experience of spirit-born mortals who effectively reveal the Master to all men.
195:10.5 (2084.5) In winning souls for the Master, it is not the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion that betokens the Jesusonian reaching forth to grasp his brother in love and sweep him on under spiritual guidance toward the higher and divine goal of mortal existence. Christianity even now willingly goes the first mile, but mankind languishes and stumbles along in moral darkness because there are so few genuine second-milers—so few professed followers of Jesus who really live and love as he taught his disciples to live and love and serve.
From each family of professed followers we can learn; and we can learn to love and serve . . . together. That’s the great hope. I believe that, for many people, this project is worth some of our time.
