The modern religious landscape reveals many attitudes and ideas that contradict the Bible. This is no less true when looking at the idea of unity. For many, "doctrine" is evil and the cause of all division. The Bible tells a different story, one that places great importance upon finding, understanding, and holding on to doctrinal truths.
Reading the New Testament, we can easily see that God wants His church to live in unity. But unity in the Bible is not simply a decision to get along, nor is it a state of being to achieve. God has already created that kind of unity. It is up to us to maintain that, but that only comes through activity. Unity is not passive but active. When the body of Christ is working together, that is the unity God expects of His people.
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Love is the bond that holds us all together in Christ. How does this work though? Plenty of people feel love for others but they do not have unity. Is love merely an emotion that we create in our minds? Here is a taste of what the Bible says about how (and why) love is the supreme principle in unity.
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Christ's church is the unified spiritual training ground of God. If we understand the church in those terms, we will have a lot easier time understanding why we should attend worship.
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