I'd be a fool to pretend to answer that question.
But on the level of supposition, I imagine it must be...
(To risk being absurdly obvious)
Many different things.
Christians in Pittsburgh are, after all, contending with a very different raft of challenges, needs, "pressing issues," immediate crises, possibilities and responsibilities (social, cultural, national) than the Christians in...say... Bangkok.
Or the Christians in Moscow as opposed to Nairobi, or the Christians in Mongolia as opposed to Malta. Or the Christians in Kiev as opposed to Rio de Janeiro.
Is there one Spirit?
Of course.
Is the Church one?
Of course.
Is there a common, uniting vision and call?
Absolutely.
But it's wrong to conclude, on that basis, that Almighty God Himself expects every Christian in the world to..."buzz" with the issues that I, in my little house in my little neighborhood in my little city in my little country, happen to be all wrapped up in at the moment.
It doesn't at all mean the issues are insignificant. It just means they're not...everything.
To be quite clear, they may be issues of eternal import, the most important things I, right here and right now, can attend to.
Still, they are not...everything.
Only God is everything.
What is the Spirit saying to the Church?
Whatever it is, it must be something intrinsically bigger than the stuff of today's newspaper headlines.
Or even what "charges me up" spiritually.
We have no other option, of course, than to hear the Spirit "locally" and respond within the sphere of our assigned place in His vineyard. Hopefully, to respond with alacrity!
Moreover, we can "cover" the whole vineyard with prayer, and we can occasionally lend a direct, practical hand to our brethren laboring in other parts.
But it would be a mistake to assume that every laborer all over the vineyard is turning over soil that looks just like what's in our shovel, or encountering precisely the same roots, rocks and weeds. Or even using exactly the same tools. Or even, to stretch the analogy uncomfortably, planting the same seeds (though the Gospel is one)—or, if the seeds are the same, the Master may have provided different instructions for a very different kind of soil.
Indeed, the vineyard is so large, our brother or sister is likely to be contending with a whole different weather system, too....
There may even be parts of the field that gladly cooperate with a John Deere while others respond to nothing but a horse and plough.
What is the Spirit saying to the Church?
It must be so many different things, and all of them bearing an eternal weight of meaning.
And in it all, it is God Who is....everything. And Who alone contemplates everything.
