Cross of Christ
Illustration★★★★On the bottom of the swimming pool in the YMCA at Monmouth, Illinois, the builders placed a beautiful tile emblem symbolic of the spiritual, mental, and physical nature of man. At the center of the emblem is the Bible, opened at John 17:21. When a boy could not make out the wording, he swam to the bottom and read it. “It says John 17:21, but what is that?” he asked the lifeguard. “That they all may be one,” the lifeguard answered. The boy’s reply was prophetic: “You sure have to go through a lot to find that out.” We need only to look at the Cross of Christ for absolute confirmation of that reality.
The point
In a YMCA pool, an emblem with the Bible at John 17:21 about unity is placed on the bottom; a boy swims down to read it, learning unity requires sacrifice.