Anglican Daily Fountain 11 January 2022 Devotional | Tuesday Message
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TOPIC: Maintaining Unity In The Body Of Christ
TEXT: 1 Corinthians 1:1-17
Anglican Daily Fountain 11 January 2022 Devotional | Tuesday
The concept of unity appears early in the scriptures. In Genesis 1:26, we read, “And God said, ‘let us make man in our image.” This shows that unity is important to God. One can understand why it appears that Paul was in a hurry to talk about it, denouncing disunity in the strongest terms, and making a strong case for unity, among the Corinthian Church of his day.
The question, “Is Christ divided?” continues to beg for answers, even more in our time. Doctrinal matters have so divided the Body of Christ that the multiplicity of denominations within Christendom is at the highest. S.J. Stone put it succinctly in his Hymn, A&M255, “With scornful wonder men see her sore opprest, by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distrest.” Paul enjoins the Corinthian Church to shun all forms of divisions and maintain the same unity as found in the Godhead, who called them “unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord” (v.9). God Himself also testified to the efficacy of unity in Genesis 11:6.
Prayer: May the love of God reign supreme in my heart, and may I receive the grace to pursue peace and unity among the brethren. Amen.
Anglican Daily Fountain 11 January 2022 Daily Devotional Message. The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England.