The Church Is United in the Gospel
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· 9 viewsThe apostle Paul wrote to the church at Corinth to address several problems they were facing, one of which was division. The church had lost sight of its unity in the gospel. Through Jesus’ death and resurrection, believers are brought into one body to live in unity and harmony as an expression of the great power of the gospel. God unites the church by the gospel of Jesus Christ, the one thing that binds us together amid great diversity. Because we have been brought together with God through Jesus, we unite with a local church and live humbly and graciously with one another. The church’s unity is a necessity and not a luxury. When churches walk in unity, they experience the fruit of Jesus’ high priestly prayer.
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1. The church is to be united
1. The church is to be united
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. For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
2. The church is to be united by the gospel
2. The church is to be united by the gospel
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
3. The church is to be united by the gospel to show the world Jesus’ power
3. The church is to be united by the gospel to show the world Jesus’ power
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
John 17:20-23
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 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.