We’re Better Together (Linton Hall)

Ephesians 2:11-14a CSB – So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands. ¹² At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility.

John 17:20-23 CSB – “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word. ²¹ May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you.May they also be^[a] in us, so that the world may believe you sent me. ²² I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one. ²³ I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have lovedthem as you have loved me.

What’s wrong with the world? I am. – G.K. Chesterton

James 4:1a NIV – What causes fights and quarrels among you?

James 4:1-2 NIV – What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? ² You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

James 4:3 NIV – When you ask, you do not receive,because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Ephesians 4:3 NIV – Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

“Only humility leads to unity. And unity to peace.” – Mother Teresa

John 17:17 NIV – Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.” – A.W. Tozer

Romans 1:7 NIV – To all in Rome who are loved by God

Ephesians 4:3-6 NIV – Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism; ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Matthew 18:20 CSB – For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.”