Hephzibah Leadership Center – Summary of Last Monday's Bible Study on WhatsApp.

Topic: Daily Christian Living – Unity In Diversity Part I

Text: Rm 12: 4 – 6 {NLT}
Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, So it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you.

Question 1 – Why is the body of Christ presented in scriptures as One body with many parts?
Believers in Christ are people from different tribes, race, language, colour, with different physical and spiritual abilities been unified into one. Equally, putting away our human differences to pursue and achieve one goal, which is to glorify Christ on this earth.

Question 2 – Is denomination in anyway a threat to our unity in Christ?
Denomination in actual sense should not be a threat to our unity in Christ, because no one denomination can fulfill the great commission. But in today’s Church, the emphasis on one denomination being better than another denomination is truly threatening our unity in Christ.

Question 3 – If denomination is seen as a threat to the body of Christ, why do we have genuine persons called by God to open more denominations?
Denomination was not given to the body of Christ by God to threaten its unity, rather it was given as a tool to fulfill the great commission. The truth which is available in Church today is that we have allowed the devil to come in and he has sowed seeds of destruction in the Church which is manifesting through denominational divides. There can truly be unity with the several denominations that we have today, if all the denominations can stop emphasizing their denomination as the best place to be and start emphasizing Christ and Christ alone.

Take Away Thought
We are equally in our sonship in Christ but we can only diver based on the specific assignment we have received from Christ. The assignment is meant to foster unity among us and to greatly advance the purpose of redemption.