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(On Ephesians 1:15)

There is also gratefulness expressed in his prayer to God for their love expressed 'to all the saints'.  This gratefulness is not just for 'love' being shown and demonstrated, but that it is non-discriminatory among the 'saints' - there is not preferring one above another (Just as a parent is heartened to see their children loving each other equally and not neglecting some)  Knowing what we already know (of what God has done on our behalf) and the uniting us together into one purpose as family (and as a 'team', our understanding of this will draw us toward each other as fellow beneficiaries of God's grace, called to a special purpose together. It is not our distinctions that unite us,but our common likeness (in Christ) and our unified calling - we have the same purpose and so find our love for one another understandable.

- Don Lambert
From his Ephesians sermon series:  http://www.dansvillebaptist.org/ephesians.html

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Harmony is found in Christ-likeness not in the flaunting of our originality.  The true Christian wants to blend in amongst the (Christ-like) brethren.

- Don Lambert

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Where union and friendship are not cemented by truth, I say it again, we must have unity, we must pray for unity, we must love one another, we must never divide over incidentals but it is far, far, far better to be divided by truth than united in error.

Charles Spurgeon

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Not only are Christians to be collective representatives of Christ on earth but also individual representatives as each one strives to be like Him.  That's the key to unity in the church.  If all of us were more like Christ, we' have no problem getting along with each other.  But unfortunately, we are not always in tune with one another because we are not all fully following Christ.    A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) once said that if a hundred pianos were merely tuned to each other, their pitch would not be very accurate.  But if they were all tuned to one tuning fork, they would automatically be tuned to each other.  Similarly, unity in the church isn't the result of running around and adjusting to everyone else.  Rather, the key to unity is becoming like Jesus Christ.

- John Macarthur

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I am quite sure that the best way to promote union is to promote truth.  It will not do for us to be all united together by yielding to one another's mistakes.  

 

Charles Spurgeon

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It is not… by an earthly leader, by a worldly hierarchy, by an uniformity of worship, of liturgy, by crosses, miters, censers, it is not by all these things that the unity of the Church is manifested; she leaves to the world these miserable elements. The true Church of Christ has no other bond than the unity of her faith and confession, in love and holiness of life. With her, all externals, which men regard of so high importance, are altogether secondary. All is free for her, saving her Jesus. When Rome points to her false and dead unity, the Church of Christ is to present a true and living unity; a UNITY and not an UNIFORMITY. 

 

Jean Henri Merle D'aubigne