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- The biblical definition of unity is a God-given oneness that respects diversity, is grounded in love, and reflects the very nature of the Triune God. It’s a unity that doesn’t erase our uniqueness but harmonizes it into a beautiful whole, much like instruments in an orchestra creating a symphony far greater than the sum of its parts.
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Our triune God is the supreme example of unity. God, who is love (1 John 4:8), has forever existed in a perfectly pure unity as Father, Son, and Spirit (Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:19). Adam and Eve enjoyed peaceful fellowship with God, but their sin brought a great division between them and God, and consequently, between us and God (1 Cor. 15:22). Through...
1. A Virtue in and of Itself
As pleasant as it is “when brothers dwell in unity” (Ps. 133:1), unity is not a virtue in and of itself. The unity at the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9), or between Herod and Pilate (Luke 23:12), shows us that unity is a vehicleused for good or evil purposes. To pursue unity at all costs defies the nature of biblical unity, which is grounded in the affirmation and application of the truth (orthodoxy andorthopraxy). Charles Spurgeon exemplified this pointwhen he rejected unity with professing-Ch...
2. Uniformity
Further, biblical unity is not uniformity. The family of God is a diversity of people, gifted to serve each other for the sake of unified maturity in the faith (Eph. 4:11–13). Though we are one in Christ, God doesn’t erase our unique gifts, abilities, personal preferences, or other distinctions like gender or age. He also doesn’t erase our ethnic and cultural heritages (Rev. 7:9). Any call to unity that requires partisan allegiance, discarding one’s heritage, or conflating cultural and/or soc...
3. Divorced from Justice
Since Old Testament times, God hasn’t merely been interested in offenders proclaiming “I’m sorry,” but in the offended (or victimized) being made whole. Enter: the restitution laws, which required an offender to make reparation to his defrauded neighbor before seeking the Lord’s forgiveness (Lev. 6:1–7; see also Ex. 22:1–15; Matt. 5:23–26). Zacchaeus, the tax collector who swindled his fellow Jews out of their money, understood this: “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And...
It’s important for us to keep in mind the biblical vision, especially when we hear hollow unity calls that fail to also call us to repent of damage done to others. If we really want true and virtuous unity among God’s people, that both reflects him and also expresses the unity his Son secured on the cross, then we must examine ourselves. Are we ins...
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Aug 11, 2022 · There is unity within the Godhead. Later, when Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), He further emphasized unity in the Godhead. After Jesus had ascended to heaven to be with the Father, Paul encouraged the church with the idea of the Trinity, three co-equal members of the Godhead.
Nov 14, 2017 · The unity — the good, pleasant unity — the biblical, theological, spiritual, ministerial oneness of the shepherds of the church — is an excessive gift to the church. It is more than we deserve.
Aug 11, 2022 · One purpose of the gifts is that “we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13). To promote Christian unity, God presents the church in 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 as a living body.
Nov 10, 2017 · Unity is a gift from God. In Ephesians 2, Paul explains how unity comes as a result of salvation. This means, unity among fellow Christians is a gift of grace, just like salvation itself. As Ephesians 2:13–16 teaches, Jews and Gentiles were made “one new man” by the death and resurrection of Christ.
May 10, 2015 · 1. Christian unity is not organization or external, but rather is based on shared life in Jesus Christ. It is important to understand that there are two types of unity in the Bible. In Ephesians 4:3, Paul says that we are to be “diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
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