Quotes about Unity

Spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.

Christians must pioneer new ways to bind ourselves to Scripture, to our traditions, and to each other—not for mere survival, but so that the church can be the authentic light of Christ to a world lost in darkness.

Biblical unity is about working through conflicts, avoiding slander and gossip, and being generous in spirit. It is giving each other the benefit of the doubt, distributing ample doses of grace in the midst of our sin and imperfection, and demonstrating fierce loyalty.

Unloving attitudes and words cause a "stench that the world can smell... Our sharp tongues, the lack of love between us... these are what properly trouble the world."

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

Mark 3:25: "And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

Don't get a bad attitude like they did back in the wilderness, or you're going to be joining them.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord.

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing."