Quotes About Unity

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

Biblical community, then, incorporates this idea of an active partnership in the promotion of the gospel and the building up of believers.

Without this relationship with God, there can be no spiritual relationship with one another.

How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else—even when we are unsure of our facts. We forget that "a man who stirs up dissension among brothers" by criticizing one to another is one of the "six things which the Lord hates" (Proverbs 6:16-19).

Fellowship is much, much more than food and fun and even more than reading and studying the Scriptures with another believer. Fellowship at times may involve blood, sweat, and tears as we stand side by side with our persecuted brothers and sisters.

believe this truth, that we are fellow members of the body of Christ and that God loves each of us, could serve to diffuse a lot of hostility and disagreement among fellow believers. I am grateful that God taught me this lesson early in my training to be a Navigator staff member.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

The Bible speaks not of God's laws, as if many of them, but of God's Law as a single whole.

He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.

the common life that believers have in Him. In the same manner, if believers are to share with one another

Because His people were in union with Him, to persecute them was to persecute Him. This truth is no different today. You are in union with Christ, just as surely as the disciples were in the time of the book of Acts.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Since Protestant theology makes no claim that the Bible is crystal clear beyond that minimal knowledge necessary for salvation, it implicitly acknowledges that Christians may differ without having to accuse each other of intellectual weakness or moral corruption.

If you knock even the most hateful human being, you will come out of the encounter looking less than heroic. People almost always side with the one being attacked.

The lesson here is that "silo thinking"—each component operating in a vacuum—can destroy a healthy functioning community, whether in nature or in business

No one," Ben noted, "would have known about James Chaney if he had been by himself.

I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.