Unity Is Crucial If You’re Being Stretched

  Unity is not

If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, how would you smell anything? But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it. How strange a body would be if it had only one part! – 1Cor 12:17-19

  Unity makes us

And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be impossible for them.” – Gen 11:6

  Unity is crucial if you’re being

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. – 1Cor 1:10 NKJV

Make every effort to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace [each individual working together to make the whole successful] – Eph 4:3 AMP

  Remember: We’re on the same here

So the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water so that we may drink!” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” But the people were thirsty for water there; and they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why is it that you have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What am I to do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. – Ex 17:2-6

If one part of the body suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if a part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it – 1Cor 12:26

All scripture is from the New Living Translation unless otherwise noted