*To more fully understand the conclusions in this post, see my introductory post on Christian unity, followed by reflections on the meaning, visibility, priority, benefits, and basis of our unity in Jesus. My modest aim here is to ramble off a few scattered, disjointed implications that flow out of my arguments about unity in previous posts. They seem to be logical inferences to
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. Next week I will conclude this series by drawing out certain implications from what has been argued in these posts, and by offering a few practical suggestions for those passionate about pursuing “visible unity” among confessing Christians. “One is a brother to another only through Jesus Christ. I am a brother to
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. “It is not possible to account for the contentment with the divisions of the Church except upon the basis of a loss of the conviction that the Church exists to bring all men to Christ. There is the closest possible connection between the acceptance
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. “Nothing can be clearer, of course, than that the conception of its unity enters fundamentally into the New Testament doctrine of the Church.” (B. B. Warfield, “True Church Unity: What It Is,” p. 299) The Priority of Christian Unity The pursuit and maintenance of
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. “Our Lord says [in John 17] that He has given this glory to those who believe in Him ‘that they may be one even as we are one.’ Being children of God must mean being–in some recognizable sense–members of one family. All our rationalizations
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*To see the previous post in this ongoing series, click here. “Far from presenting a picture of unity to the world, the church seems almost to give a warning example of disunity, the very strength of faith and conviction giving depth and bitterness to the ‘unhappy divisions.’ The church may have a consciousness of its unity. But
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“The Church is one, and by her fertility she has extended by degree into many. In the same way, the sun has many rays, but a single light; a tree has many branches but a single trunk resting on a deep root; and many streams flow out from a single source. However many may spread
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