In order to promote Christianity and carry out God’s commandments, it is necessary that the people of all Christian denominations should be united. The teachings of Jesus Christ can only be carried forward by being kind and gentle with all Christian brothers and sisters. We pray that you will forget all differences and join hands with all Christian brothers and sisters and unite under one banner. Spiritual quotes about church unity will surely impress you that we are all one.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. ― A.W. Tozer
Worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the ‘whosoever will, let him come’ doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.― Martin Luther King Jr, The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr
The union of believers is grounded in the mystical union of Christ and His Church. The Bible speaks of a two-way transaction that occurs when a person is regenerated. Every converted person becomes in Christat the same time Christ enters into the believer. If I am in Christ and you are in Christ, and if He is in us, then we experience a profound unity in Christ.– R.C. Sproul, Tabletalk
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.– Martin Luther
Sometimes it takes having differences, not understanding one another, and even being a little bit irritated by and bored with one another, to remind us that the church is a family and not a club. At its best, this family dynamic of the local church functions as God’s fertile soil for growing us beyond mere tolerance toward true expressions of love and unity.― Scott Sauls, Jesus Outside the Lines: A Way Forward for Those Who Are Tired of Taking Sides
The level of rhetoric and discourse [in the election season] has been so divisive. I think it is important to remind believers that their identity is in Christ, and that we are called to unity and reconciliation. In my own church there are Republicans, Democrats and Independents. We are wanting to call people to remember that only in Jesus is there ultimate hope.― C. Christopher Smith, Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.– Corrie Ten Boom
All Christians enjoy a unity of mission in which we have one Lord, one faith, and one baptism (Eph. 4:4–5). There is surely disunity in the visible church, but that is not as important as the reality of the unity that we enjoy by virtue of our shared communion in Christ.― R.C. Sproul, Everyone’s a Theologian
It should be evident that there can be no true Christian sharing unless there is first an impartation of life. An organization and a name do not make a church. One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.― A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God
No one is perfect—there are always going to be little things that people disagree about. Nevertheless, we should always get on our knees together and seek to maintain the unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace. (Eph 4:3)― John F. MacArthur Jr, The Master’s Plan for the Church
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.– Edmund Burke
I don’t believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches—whatever specific forms our gatherings take—to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.― Francis Chan, Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We Made Up
I saw a lot of working class men and women – myself included – living a deeper, more thoughtful life than would have been possible without the church… The sense of belonging to something big, something important, lent unity and meaning.― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! – Psalm 133:1
True friends face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. – C.S. Lewis
The church is not simply a religious body looking for a safe place to do its own thing within a wider political or social world. The church is neither more nor less than people who bear witness, by their very existence and in particular their holiness and their unity (Colossians 3), that Jesus is the world’s true lord, ridiculous or even scandalous though this may seem.― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I’m not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular – a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: We’ve got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he’s coming back for a bride not a harem.― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
On the concept of unity- Thatʼs right-Jesusʼ most pressing concern before leaving the earth was our unity. He was looking ahead, to every generation of believer. And as he prayed, he made it clear that our witness as his body in this fractured , messed-up, chaotic world would depend on our love for another.― Ed Galisewski, A Simpler Faith: Hope For Those Who Struggle With Church
IT IS YOUR JOB TO PROTECT THE UNITY OF YOUR CHURCH. Unity in the church is so important that the New Testament gives more attention to it than to either heaven or hell. God deeply desires that we experience oneness and harmony with each other. Unity is the soul of fellowship. Destroy it, and you rip the heart out of Christ’s Body. It is the essence, the core, of how God intends for us to experience life together in his church. Our supreme model for unity is the Trinity. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are completely unified as one. God himself is the highest example of sacrificial love, humble other-centeredness, and perfect harmony.― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
I don’t believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches—whatever specific forms our gatherings take—to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.― Francis Chan, Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We Made Up
When the people in a church dwell together in the unity of the gospel and together pursue the building up of one another in love, they are providing fertile soil for the roots of deep joy. But […]― Matt Chandler, To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain
On the concept of unity- Thatʼs right – Jesusʼ[s] most pressing concern before leaving the earth was our unity. He was looking ahead, to every generation of believer. And as he prayed, he made it clear that our witness as his body in this fractured , messed-up, chaotic world would depend on our love for another.― Ed Galisewski, A Simpler Faith: Hope For Those Who Struggle With Church
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.― Stanley Hauerwas, In Good Company: The Church as Polis
We tend to lament this seemingly endless parceling of Christianity (which, let’s face it, can indeed get out of hand), but I’m not convinced the pursuit of greater unity means rejecting denominationalism altogether. A worldwide movement of more than two billion people reaching every continent and spanning thousands of cultures for over two thousand years can’t expect homogeneity. And the notion that a single tradition owns the lockbox on truth is laughable, especially when the truth we’re talking is God.― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Why is understanding church models essential in enabling a city’s churches to work together in unity? Without this understanding, there will be no catholicity in your city. Unless you accept the fact that there is not one exclusively biblical church model, you will not see the need for strong fellowship and connections to other denominations and networks, which usually embody different emphases and strengths than the ones that characterize your model. What’s more, there also will be no catholicity in your church, denomination, or movement.― Timothy J. Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City
Worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.― Martin Luther King Jr, The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr
…If a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing [for Satan and his devils to do] is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that suits”him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. The reasons are obvious. In the first place the parochial organization should always be attacked, because, being a unity of place and not of likings, it brings people of different classes and psychology together in the kind of unity the [Lord] desires… In the second place, the search for a suitablechurch makes the man a critic where the [Lord] wants him to be a pupil.― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Election has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of individuals but refers instead to God’s way of saving nations. It was a major mistake of the Reformation to have decided to follow Augustine in this matter, taking election to refer to grace and salvation. It manages to make bad news out of good news. It casts a deep shadow over the character of God. At it worst, it can lead to awful consequences in terms of pride, arrogance, superiority, and intolerance as the ideology of election takes hold. It causes the church to become, not a sign of the unity of humanity in the love of God, but the sign of favorites in the midst of the enemies of God.― Clark H. Pinnock, A Wideness in God’s Mercy: The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions
Unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, charity in all things.― The Puritans
Unity in the church is so important that the New Testament gives more attention to it than to either heaven or hell. God deeply desires that we experience oneness and harmony with each other. Unity is the soul of fellowship. Destroy it, and you rip the heart out of Christ’s Body. It is the essence, the core, of how God intends for us to experience life together in his church. Our supreme model for unity is the Trinity. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are completely unified as one. God himself is the highest example of sacrificial love, humble other-centeredness, and perfect harmony.― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
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