Oneness in Christ

Here's a piece from an email I sent off earlier this morning:

This truth of oneness is an amazing reality. For the same life of God that is within Jesus is also in us. Notice the overlapping description in these words: "even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us". The natural, religious mind of man cannot fathom the unity described by what Jesus said; instead, the religious mind balks at the suggestion of that unity. Serious religious leaders will make sure to tell you that you are not God, but that you are merely a sinner who has been given a second chance. The truth is that while religion will try to convince you that you are still separated from God, you have been made one IN him, in the very same way that Jesus Christ and his father are one. That's very, very close, isn't it? :)