Learning from our hippos: When we know who our Maker is, we can be drawn back together. Our value, reality, identity, has a lot to do with WHO God is. Believe in God because of Jesus. Knowing Jesus helps things fall into place There are lots of 'gods' in society, including the Wests's god of 'self'. Concept of personal knowledge. Take Pilot who asked 'What is truth?' to the very person who says 'I am the truth'. Why do people want truth in the form of information on a page, impersonal? You can't just have 'truth' - it is in relation to a person, community, the one from whom we come. Truth is not ultimately found in a concept, but found in a person. Is science the most objective work? -maybe, but they still passionately love what they do, they are engaged with what they do. They believe it. They are involved with it. They experience it. It is not dead. You do what you love. Knowledge has a personal character to it - knowledge is pursued with our emotions. Has modernity deadened our value, healthy emotion, true unified diversity? People struggle to value truth, and it is compartmentalised. Uni-versities in the past used to seek after 'one truth', the truth, the heart of reality. They started with Jesus, and as a result saw the big picture. The whole truth (Jesus) came to our little part of the universe - all diverse subjects were studied based on the one truth. Modern universities have diversities with 'many truths', meaning it now has nothing to hold its people together. Diversity is a strength only if there is a deeper truth that holds us all together. Diversity is not a strength on its own. But it is when you are united by something more important, when there is something bigger that holds us together. Church is place we can disagree What joins us together is our love for Jesus. Jesus draws us together, diverse, yet united. Society pushes diversity, yet diversity goes nowhere if it is just care for self. The Bible builds into its culture, freedom to disagree with each other. Take the book of Revelation -the end of all history, after judgment day, when we live with Christ, we will still have all the languages, cultures, different ways of doing things, with the tree of life healing all the nations. All nations are joined together, worshiping in their own languages and cultures. When we lift eyes to Jesus, we can love our many cultures, our foods, our dress, and be united and rejoice with each other. Father Son and Holy Spirit Diversity of persons in the godhead - the son goes and makes, the seen face-off God. The father who plans. Jesus doesn't know when the end of the world is, but the father does. The spirit goes out and fills everyone with life. Empowers us. Imagine if society was build on this example! Real diversity in unity. Francisancs had nothing, clueniacs had much and built magnificent cathedrals.