Obeying Jesus Christ’s commands (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8) often divides biological families, as Jesus warned it would in Matthew 10:21-39. Please keep my biological family in your prayers, that they too may know the amazing peace Jesus Christ gives (John 14:27) and the beautiful unity we have in Him. I am so thankful that my brother Mahmoud became my brother in Christ and that we will see him someday in Heaven!
As Jesus with the Father is one, He also desires us to be one in His name (John 17). Sadly, the Church today is divided due to many different issues, including details that do not matter and issues that are more denominational than Biblical. We need to ask, why did Jesus pray for unity in His followers? So the world would know Him.