One God

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. – Ephesians 4.4-6

The greatest bond of all of course is that we all have God who is:

Over us all
Working through us all
In us all

You have to wonder how Christians can be so divided when we clearly have so much on common. All through our history we have fought each other beginning with the fight over the salvation of Gentiles. The early church got together and sorted that out and those who were in Biblical error were called out.

But our fights, despite the fact that we have the same God over us and working through us and in us all, are often over the most petty matters. Our pride causes us to refuse to even listen to their ideas or viewpoints, ignoring our unity in Christ because we feel that we have to be right.

I am of course not saying that we ignore sin or error or false teaching. We have to stand and deal with all of those destroyers of unity. What I am saying is that we ought to be looking for ways to unite because all true believers are the same side. We have the same Commander so we have a common goal and a common purpose as we unite to serve our common God. We may not, and will not, all do it exactly the same way but our goal is the – to draw people to Christ and to glorify God in all we say and do.

Our common God who is over and and working through us al and who is living in jus all to be our unifying factor as we move forward to win a world to Him.