United

I've been reading a book by Conn Iggulden about Ganghas Khan, Lord's of The Bow. I enjoyed the first of this series and so far I'm greatly enjoying this, the second book.
One thing keeps re-occuring in my mind though - UNITY.
This great conqueror was able to accomplish so much because he was able to unite warring tribes of his countrymen. And this led my mind to remember and consider Mark Dever's statement at Acts29;

"Our differences are enough to separate some of my friends—your brothers and sisters in Christ—from you. And perhaps to separate them from me, now that I’m publicly speaking to you. And I don’t want to minimize either the sincerity or the seriousness of some of their concerns (things like: humor, worldliness, pragmatism, authority).

But I perceive some things in common which outweigh our differences—which the Lord Jesus shall soon enough compose between us, either by our maturing, or by His bringing us home. I long to work with those, and count it a privilege to work with those whom My Savior has purchased with His blood, and with whom I share the gospel of Jesus Christ. I perceive that we have in common the knowledge that God is glorified in sinners being reconciled to Him through Christ. This is not taught by other religions, nor clearly by the ancient Christian churches of the East, or by Rome, by liberal Protestant churches, by Mormons, the churches of Christ, or by groups of self-righteous, legalistic, moralistic Christians. And not only do we together affirm the exclusivity of salvation through faith alone in Christ alone—we agree on the sovereignty of God in life and salvation, the regenerate nature of church members, the importance of church membership and discipline, the baptism of believers alone, the priorities of expositional preaching, and evangelism, the importance of authority and a growing appreciation for the significance of complementarianism. These are not slight matters. And they only fire my desire to encourage you and cheer you on, until you cross that finish line that the Lord lays down for us."

My thought simply is; If we were able to unite as Christians under these principles, and to work around other differences that are mostly down to personal taste and traditions, how much more could we accomplish to the Glory of our Great King?

As I've been looking at Acts chapter 2 for next Sunday one of the issues that has come forward is that we (Christians) have been baptised by the Spirit into one body and that we are called to love one another!

Honestly I do not know anything, apart from revival, that may bring this unity through the people of Jesus Christ. Though it is something to dream about and strive for in my own life; that I would love my brothers and sisters in Christ and work around issues that we may differ on, yet unite under the fundamental doctrines of grace and salvation!