Okolona Christian Church
Above The Fray: Unity Over Division
Andrew "Fitz" Fitzgibbon
September 8, 2024

Above The Fray: Unity Over Division

September 8, 2024

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Ephesians 4:3-6 (NLT)
Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all.

 

is the Devil’s strategy.

 

Numerator = Number on top
Denominator = What is dividing it

 

Oneness
Disunity

(The above shows God’s Broken Heart.)

 

John 14:6 (NLT)
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.“

 

RECLAIM THE ART OF ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS.

          – “Can you help me understand…?”

 

in what is essential,  in what is not essential, and in all areas.

 

Essential matters are necessary for salvation.

 

Important matters are important for our growth in holiness, but not essential for our salvation.

 

Personal matters should be held loosely.

 

Ephesians 4:29 (NLT)
Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

 

Decide to respond with humility, compassion, and respect.

 

Make every to pursue unity.

 

Isaiah 53:4-5 (NLT)
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.

 

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