“I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I’ll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common.”
1 Corinthians 1:10 MSG
“If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care—then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.”
Philippians 2:1-4 MSG
Don’t try to comfort yourself with verses like John 15:18: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” The world currently hates us not because we resemble Jesus but because we don’t.Francis Chan, Until Unity
The Lord in His sovereignty chose for us to live in this time, so we must trust that He will give us grace to navigate through this with strength and love.Francis Chan, Until Unity
When love is shallow, all it takes is something as trivial as a disagreement to divide us.
In many ways, we have lost a sense of the true holiness of God, and that has caused pride to grow and fester in the church. Everyone seems to start out with the assumption that his or her opinion of God is right, rather than recognizing that all of us have an incomplete, flawed knowledge of God.
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