What Is the Significance of Keeping or Having Unity in The Church?

Ephesians 4:1-6 
 
What is unity and what does it mean to have unity within the church?
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Definition: the state of being united or joined as a whole, oneness, a condition of harmony – accord, the quality or state of being made one – unification, a totality of related parts.
 
“There is one body,” according to Paul, and we have been given many gifts and capacities. Unity does not simply occur; we need to work at it. Regularly contrasts among individuals can prompt division, however this ought not be in the congregation. Rather than focusing on which separates us, we ought to recollect what joins us: one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one baptism, one faith, and one God. Have we figured out how to see the value in the individuals who are different from us? Would we be able to perceive how our contrasting gifts and perspectives can help the church as it goes about in doing God's work? We ought to figure out how to partake in the joy that we individuals from Christ's body supplement each other (1 Corinthians 12:12-13).
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God has picked us to be Christ's delegates while on this planet. Considering this, Paul moves us to live deserving of the name Christian, and that implies Christ's one. This incorporates being peaceful, gentle, humble, patient, and understanding. The world is watching our lives. Would they be able to see Christ in us? How well would we say we are getting along as that delegate?

Nobody is truly going to be wonderfully perfect here on this planet, so we should acknowledge and cherish different Christians despite their shortcomings. At the point when we see shortcomings in other Christians, we ought to be gentle and be patient with them. Is there somebody whose activities and character can truly bother us? Rather than harping on that individual's shortcomings, or searching for deficiencies, we ought to appeal to God for that individual. Then, at that point, do significantly more, get to know one another and check whether we can figure out how to like the person in question.
 
Unity is one of the Holy Spirit's significant jobs. As he leads, we should be happy and willing to be led. And if we are willing to be led, we should concentrate on God, not ourselves (John 3:6; Acts 1:5; Ephesians 1:13-14).

Those of us who have faith in Christ have a place with one body. We as a whole are joined under one Head, who is Christ himself (1 Corinthians 12:12-26). Every Christian has natural capacities that can fortify the entire body. Our unique capacity might appear to be little or huge, however it is our own to use in the assistance of God. We are to request that God utilize our interesting gifts to add to the strength and wellbeing of the assemblage of devotees.

God is “above all.” God is beyond this normal or physical plane of existence (transcendence). He is “through and in all.” This shows his dynamic presence on this earth and in the existences of every believer (immanence). The Latin form is immanere, which means to dwell in or remain. Any perspective on God that disregard either his immanence or his transcendence is anything but a genuine image of him.
 
Let us now look at the seven points of one.
One is the number for Unity, and Seven is the number for Completeness.
 
One Body:

• Romans 12:5, “So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”
• 1 Corinthians 12:12, “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.”
• 1 Corinthians 12:20, “But now are they many members, yet but one body.”

 
One Spirit:

• 1 Corinthians 12:13, “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”
• 1 Corinthians 6:17, “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”
• 1 John 5:7, “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”

 
One Hope:

• Colossians 1:5, “For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel.”
• 1 Peter 3:15, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”
• Psalms 39:7, “And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.”

 
One Lord:

• 1 Corinthians 8:6, “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.”
• Philippians 2:11, “And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
• Acts 2:36, “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

 
One Baptism:

• Matthew 28:19, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”
• Acts 2:28, “Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.”
• Romans 6:4, “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

 
One Faith:

• 1 Corinthians 16:13, “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”
• Romans 10:17, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
• Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

 
One God and Father of all:

• Hebrews 3:4, “For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”
• Romans 11:36, “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.”
• 1 Corinthians 8:6, “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.”

 
We are told in Philippians 2:2 to be “likeminded, being of one accord and of one mind.” That means we are to be all agreeing without dissention. In 1 Peter 3:8, we are also told to “be ye all of one mind.” Attend to each other’s needs, serve one another as we serve in Christ. How is the unity within our local body of believers? Have we set aside our differences and come together to serve the Lord as one?