The Unity of the Church with Metropolitan Youssef

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]When we send this a church whether it is a true church or not.

[00:00:10]Truth was founded from the practices of the people or the teaching of the church.

[00:00:17]Can I search a medicine based on practice of some physician or on what medicine is teaching?

[00:00:25]Okay.

[00:00:26]Uh Christ in in his prayer, he asked that all his churches will be one. Said will be united among all those.

[00:00:37]So, is God happy with all these divisions among us and all these excommunications? He isn't happy.

[00:00:45]Especially if this excommunication made because of political reason, administrative reason, or power struggle, or or struggle over money, or or whatever. Not for uh theological and dogmatic reason.

[00:01:04]Or St. Paul in Galatians chapter 1 said if an angel taught you something different, let him be accursed.

[00:01:12]So, that is the only excommunication that is mentioned in the scripture.

[00:01:17]But to have power struggle and excommunicate each other for political, administrative, financial issue, no, that's that's not acceptable. It it grieves the heart of Christ. Different.

[00:01:33]So, uh But but but in in God wants actually unity in diversity.

[00:01:43]Because the diversity is the work of the Holy Spirit in each culture.

[00:01:48]How does the Holy Spirit work in the Egyptian culture? How does the Holy Spirit work in the uh Syrian culture?

[00:01:56]How he work in the Armenian culture, how he work in the Indian culture, how he work in the Ethiopian, Eritrean, etc. As the Holy Spirit work in each individual differently, then he works in each culture difference differently. That's why we say I have this Antiochian spirituality. What's Antiochian spirituality? It is the work of the Holy Spirit in the, uh, Syriac Orthodox Church. When we speak about Coptic spirituality, it is the work of the Holy Spirit in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and etc. This actually would enrich that as the end all of them in unity.

[00:02:36]So, there is unity in the, in the diversity.