Tuesday, April 12, 2005

A call for unity

As you all can see, there have been some minor, but important, layout changes. To better reflect what this blog is about.

I guess over time, this blog is being read more and more by the VCFers rather than the PMC Youth, to call it a PMC Youth Worship Team blog is getting a bit wierd. And in more circles, its getting to be known as "Marcus' blog" rather than the One Voice Blog. Well, go with the flow.

I've removed the words "Pentecost Methodist Church Youth Worship Team" and replaced it with the words of Jesus. In John 17, Jesus makes a very powerful and important prayer. And that particular section above is His prayer for us believers, a prayer for unity, so that through this unity, God will be glorified and the world will come to believe.

I've also removed the Team Verse from the footer, and replaced it with the words of the song, One Voice. A call for unity.

The number 1, has a speical place in mathematics. (It my blog after all right??? And I've not had a maths-like post for a while). In Abstract Algebra, the symbol 1 refers to the multiplicative identity in Rings (and Fields, since fields are rings). And simply as the identity in Groups.

In number theory, the 1 is sometimes refered to as "unity". In complex analysis, the nth-roots (eg squareroot, cuberoot and higher) of the complex number 1 are called the nth roots of unity.

In that case, the term "One Voice", is simply the call to unite our voices and declare the Gospel of Jesus to the world. That was Jesus' prayer.