On the Same Page

“Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” (1Corinthians 1:10, KJV)

Isn’t it amazing that there are so many divisions in the Christian church? The apostle Paul, implores us, by the name of Jesus Christ, that there be no divisions among his people, the Christian church. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, if all of God’s people were, as Paul put it, “perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment?” Such a situation is almost unimaginable in this day. Paul called them brothers.

If we are all in the same family, Christians, we are brothers and sisters. Then why do we have all the divisions? I believe it is the enemy’s way of neutralizing the effectiveness of the Christian church as it tries to evangelize the world. The Bible has ample proof that divisions are not of God in their origin, so they must be of the devil.

In the true church, the body of Christ or the kingdom of God, there are no divisions. They are all brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. They are all perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. They are blood related by the blood of Jesus and they are all led by his Spirit. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5)Think about how much more good the church could accomplish if we all had the same mind and were all on the same page.