Unity of God’s people
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· 7 viewsA distinguishing characteristic of God’s people, which derives from their common relationship with God, and is expressed in commitment to one another, mutual concern, concerted action and harmony within the believing community.
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Unity in a common relationship with God
Unity in a common relationship with God
As children of God
As children of God
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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As the people of God
As the people of God
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Unity in a common union with Christ
Unity in a common union with Christ
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
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Unity through common receiving of the Holy Spirit
Unity through common receiving of the Holy Spirit
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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Unity in a common faith
Unity in a common faith
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
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Expressions of unity among God’s people
Expressions of unity among God’s people
Commitment to one another
Commitment to one another
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Sharing possessions
Sharing possessions
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
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Giving support
Giving support
You have not forsaken your brothers these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the Lord your God.
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Sharing troubles
Sharing troubles
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Unity expressed in agreement with one another
Unity expressed in agreement with one another
Living in harmony
Living in harmony
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United in purpose
United in purpose
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
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Of one mind
Of one mind
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
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Unity expressed in worshipping together
Unity expressed in worshipping together
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Unity marks out God’s people
Unity marks out God’s people
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
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