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In March of 1981, President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr., and was hospitalized for several weeks.
Although Reagan was the nation's chief executive, his hospitalization had little impact on the nation's activity.
Government continued on.
On the other hand, suppose the garbage collectors in this country went on strike, as they did not long ago in Philadelphia.
That city was not only in a literal mess, the pile of decaying trash quickly became a health hazard.
A three‑week nationwide strike would paralyze the country.
Who is more important‑‑the President or a garbage collector?
In the body of Christ, seemingly insignificant ones are urgently needed.
As Paul reminds us, "The head cannot say to the feet, 'I don't need you!' On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable" (I Cor.
12:21‑22).
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I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.
John Wesley
 
Calvin, who saw that the Devil's chief device was disunity and division and who preached that there should be friendly fellowship for all ministers of Christ, made a similar point in a letter to a trusted colleague: "Among Christians there ought to be so great a dislike of schism, as that they may always avoid it so fast as lies in their power.
That there ought to prevail among them such a reverence for the ministry of the word and the sacraments that wherever they perceive these things to be, there they must consider the church to exist...nor need it be of any hinderance that some points of doctrine are not quite so pure, seeing that there is scarcely any church which has not retained some remnants of former ignorance."
"To remain divided is sinful!
Did not our Lord pray, that they may be one, even as we are one"?
(John 17:22).
A chorus of ecumenical voices keep harping the unity tune.
What they are saying is, "Christians of all doctrinal shades and beliefs must come together in one visible organization,
regardless... Unite, unite!"
Such teaching is false, reckless and dangerous.
Truth alone must determine our alignments.
Truth comes before unity.
Unity without truth is hazardous.
Our Lord's prayer in John 17 must be read in its full context.
Look at verse 17: "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth."
Only those sanctified through the Word can be one in Christ.
To teach otherwise is to betray the Gospel.
During World War II, Hitler commanded all religious groups to unite so that he could control them.
Among the Brethren assemblies, half complied and half refused.
Those who went along
with the order had a much easier time.
Those who did not, faced harsh persecution.
In almost every family of those who resisted, someone died in a concentration camp.
When the war was over, feelings of bitterness ran deep between the groups and there was much tension.
Finally they decided that the situation had to be healed.
Leaders from each group met at a
\\ quiet retreat.
For several days, each person spent time in prayer, examining his own heart in the light of Christ's commands.
Then they came together.
Francis Schaeffer, who told of the incident, asked a friend who was there, "What did you do then?"
"We were just one," he replied.
As they confessed their hostility and bitterness to God
and yielded to His control, the Holy Spirit created a spirit of unity among them.
Love filled their hearts and dissolved their hatred.
When love prevails among believers, especially in times of strong disagreement, it presents to the world an indisputable mark of a true follower of Jesus Christ.
In a Peanuts cartoon Lucy demanded that Linus change TV channels, threatening him with her fist if he didn't.
"What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?" asks Linus.
"These five fingers," says Lucy. "Individually they're nothing but when I curl them together like this into a single nit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold."
"Which channel do you want?" asks Linus.
Turning away, he looks at his fingers and says, "Why can't you guys get organized like that?"
There are two ways of being united ‑‑ one is by being frozen together, and the other is by being melted together.
What Christians need is to be united in brotherly love, and then they may expect to have power.
There can be union without unity: tie two cats together by their tails and throw them over a clothesline.
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?
They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.
So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
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