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Unity in faith


 


Read: Ephesians 4:1-6


 

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[God] has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face
of the earth -- Acts 17: 26


 

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Aristides, a second century apologist for the Christian faith, wrote this to
the Roman emperor Hadrian about believers in his day:

 

            "they love one another.  They never fail to help widows; they
save orphans from those who would hurt them.  If they have something, they
give freely to the man who has nothing; if they see a stranger, they take
him home, and are happy, as though he were a real brother.  They don't
consider themselves brothers in the usual sense, but brothers instead
through the Spirit, in God."

 

As human beings, we all belong to the same family.  Even though we are
divided by all sorts of barriers and differences, "under the skin" we are
all the same (Acts 17:26).

 

As believers in Jesus Christ, then, whatever our differences --
denominations, preferences, worship styles -- we are one spiritual body that
acknowledges the same heavenly Father (Ephesians 4:4-6).  The example of our
spiritual forebears can be an instructive challenge to us as disciples of
Jesus in the 21st century.

 

Let's do all we can to demonstrate our unity in Christ.  Unity in our
diversity is the most effective witness to this sin-fractured world.  --
Vernon Grounds

 

Join hands, then, brothers of the faith,

whatever your race may be;

who serves my Father as a son

it surely came to me.

 


Thought for the day: Unity among Christians comes from their union with
Christ.


 

 

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