About Project Diktuon
Pulling the Fish Together
Unity – In Christ

The purpose of God is to have children. He wants people to be part of His family. And if we are of one family with Him, we are of one family with each other. Christ did not leave us here alone. He left us here together. And it is His will that we live here together, loving and taking care of one another.

As we are immersed in the death and resurrection of Christ, we are of one being with Him. We literally have a connection. In Christ we are children of God, His younger brothers and sisters. This applies to all Christians, so we are one in Christ, even with people we have never met.

The unity in Christ is reality to all people in the Kingdom, so we need to act accordingly. We need to embrace everyone who is in Christ with brotherly love, and welcome them to our communion. As we are of one body, we must accept unity in the Holy Communion with each other. To reject a person in whom Christ lives from the the Holy Communion, is to reject Christ.

Our unity with each other is founded on the fact that we are in Christ and Christ is in us. When we want to conquer our differences and work on our unity, we do it by seeking Christ, not by seeking each other. We will find each other at His cross. We wont find agreement by you starting to think like I do, or I starting to think like you do, but by each of us surrendering our minds to Christ, so that He would teach us how He thinks.

We need to seek the truth and not assume we have found it. When we seek the truth, we seek Christ, who is Truth. Therefore, there is never any harm in seeking the truth. To seek the truth is to be ready to relinquish what we believe to be true for what we learn. Therefore, to seek the truth is to be aware of our own fallibility and to be humble. If we cease to seek the truth, we cease to seek Christ.

To seek Christ is to focus on what we have in common in Him, and not to side issues that separate us form each other. To respect Christ is to respect all those who are in Christ, even when we think or act differently. If Christ wants either of us to change, it is His task to demand and cause it, not ours.

This means that we need to consent to unity of Christians. Not in our own terms, or the terms of the other Christians, but in the terms of Christ. Our unity is not just a good idea, it’s a fact. To renounce that fact in words or deeds is to renounce Christ. The path to unity and unanimity is obedience and submission to Christ.

Path to this consenting is a path of prayer. As we pray, we surrender more of our lives to Christ. We need to pray together and for each other. As we pray, we surrender more of our relationships to Christ, consenting to unity becomes our desire and we start to work together for common goals. We need to encounter each other and everyone else praying, so that people would see Christ in us. As we submit to the teaching of Holy Spirit, we learn to pray like this as naturally as we breath.

No Christian is an island. We belong to God’s family, and we have to take care of one another. We are both those who need to be taken care for and those who need to look after others. But no-one of us is alone, no-one can leave their siblings alone, or do anything in the Kingdom alone. Even Jesus sent His disciples two by two, never alone.

Our actions as individuals have to grow from real, living, human-sized communities. These communities have to emerge organically from the people, and they cannot be established by authority. Similarly, Project Diktuon is about supporting people in these communities, helping people to bear fruit in their current contexts, and not establishing new ones.

Our most important community is our own family, and the most important place to build the Kingdom is in our own home. Our homes are the places where we can be real ourselves and let others see us and our lives as we are.

These communities, such as families and micro-churches, are natural building blocks in the Kingdom. They are places to share care, love, attention and prayer. These small communities are where we live our authentic everyday life. There we can be the representatives of God’s grace to each other and to those following our lives and serve our communities and surroundings with the gifts God has trusted us.

While it is important to team up, to remain functional these communities also need to be small enough. Typically, the upper limit for the size is probably about a dozen. Thus, the growth of such communities leads organically to their multiplication when they divide as new people join them.

The communities are the context where we can experience belonging to something larger than just ourselves. These communities themselves belong to an even bigger context, the Body of Christ. Thus, each of us is individually a subject in the Kingdom of God.

We need to work for the good of the Kingdom, even when it does not serve our immediate benefits or those of our community. When the Kingdom prospers, the people of the Kingdom prosper.

We need to appreciate our differences as the richness of God’s creation. God has called us to be His children and reflect His likeness. We must not try to convert others to think or act like we do, but to seek together Christ and His ways and let everyone mature in their own faith and accept that they might end up somewhat different from us. To expect others to be like our ideals is to replace God with our ideals. Our unity is not based on how we see each other, but in us being in Christ.

We want to reach all of the Kingdom and welcome everyone who is in Christ and commits to these values to this the Diktuon Network, irrespective of their religious background or their position within their religious context.

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