Biblical unity is a unity based on truth, not in opposition to it. The Bible does not advocate peace at any price. There are lines of no compromise. We are not to join hands with false teachers.
Romans 16:17 indicates that it is those bringing in the new and different doctrines who are responsible for creating the division. Similarly, the apostle John declared that those who went out from us did so that it might be manifest that they were not of us (1 John 2:19). 1 Cor. 11 indicates that it is necessary that divisions come so that it may be obvious who those are who are approved of God.
It is the new apostles and prophets who are the true schismatics. They have chosen a course that takes then away from the rest of the body. Consider it this way; if the church is continuing to teach the historic doctrines of the faith and a particular teacher moves away from these doctrines to teach something else, who moved? Who created the separation? Who is really causing the division? Pointing out that a division exists by exposing the new, false doctrines is not the cause of division. The fault here does not lie with those concerned with biblical truth but with those who have abandoned it.
Keith Gibson, Wandering Stars, p. 59
Good word - thanks for posting. Praying many more will wake up to what is happening all around us in the name of unity and love.
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