Closer to Jesus = closer to each other
Here's a simple illustration of how we can experience more unity in the body of Christ. As you get closer to the living Jesus and I get...
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Steve Simms
- May 23, 2018
- 2 min
Hey, y'all! (Discovering the plural "you" in the New Testament)
In English, the word "you" is both singular and plural. (Y'all, yous, you guys, are all colloquial.) This fact often causes confusion,...
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Steve Simms
- May 19, 2018
- 2 min
How much doctrinal agreement is needed for Christian unity?
When Christians begin to think about and discuss unity, the question of doctrine always comes up. How do we overcome doctrinal...
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Steve Simms
- May 17, 2018
- 2 min
Spiritual gifts quotes
"As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are...
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Steve Simms
- May 16, 2018
- 2 min
I thought I was strange till ekklesia showed me I'm normal
Too many people feel like Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean-French filmmaker. He said: "I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal...
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Steve Simms
- May 15, 2018
- 2 min
John Fawcett let the living water flow in the 1700s
In 1765, John and Mary Fawcett went to minister in Wainsgate, a rural English community, described as: "farmers and shepherds, poor as...
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Steve Simms
- May 12, 2018
- 2 min
Allelon: Discovering One Anothering
The New Testament "one anothers" are instructions directing Christians how to relate to each another. They are based on the Greek word...
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Steve Simms
- May 10, 2018
- 2 min
Quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Life Together"
Quotes about Christian unity and community from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's famous book, "Life Together:" “If there is so much blessing and joy...
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Steve Simms
- May 9, 2018
- 2 min
A Prayer For Christians You Disagree With
Should we pray for Christian groups that hold beliefs that we disagree with and/or that do things we don't approve of? Jesus did. In...
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Steve Simms
- May 8, 2018
- 2 min
Breaking down the "bond of peace."
To often we let the "bond of peace" break down in the body of Christ. Paul wrote in Ephesians 4:3 that we should be "Endeavoring to keep...
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Steve Simms
- May 5, 2018
- 1 min
Is the body of Christ "built together" or "fallen apart"?
This is how the body of Christ looks to the world . . . This is Jesus' prayer for all Christians in John 17:20-23: "I pray also for those...
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Steve Simms
- May 3, 2018
- 1 min
The power of being together quotes
“Love is when hearts beat together." --Dhonielle Clayton “For business and personal relationships to flourish, we must engage with the...
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Steve Simms
- May 2, 2018
- 1 min
Can church meet like a support group?
When Christians meet like a support group, they begin to see the risen Jesus working in and through one another and to experience the...
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Steve Simms
- May 1, 2018
- 1 min
A head-trip or a heart-flip
Jesus said: "The light of the body is the eye." So let's turn around and Look into each other's eyes With unveiled faces, And experience...
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Steve Simms
- Apr 28, 2018
- 2 min
How to self-identify as a Christian
It's an odd culture that we live in. If a man boldly and publicly self-identifies as a woman, he is praised and called a hero. However,...
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Steve Simms
- Apr 25, 2018
- 3 min
Unity in Christ: What blocks it & what unlocks it!
We recently asked two questions on our ONE Body Life Facebook Page about unity in Christ. We got a great response and amazing answers to...
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Steve Simms
- Apr 23, 2018
- 1 min
4 songs to sing away sectarianism
You can find all these songs on YouTube. Listening to them will help you sense the oneness of the body of Christ! Bind us Together Lord...
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Steve Simms
- Apr 23, 2018
- 2 min
Getting in One Accord (In the Spirit, not in the car)
"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place." --Acts 2:1 KJV The Greek word translated as...
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Steve Simms
- Apr 21, 2018
- 3 min
Your invisible enemy says: "Drop your weapons!"
People who try to avoid morally wrong thoughts, words, and behaviors, soon discover that they have an invisible, inner enemy that...
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Steve Simms
- Apr 20, 2018
- 2 min
Hope for unity in Old Testament divisiveness
Christ came to reconcile us to God and to one another. The New Testament has much to say about unity and love for one another. But what...
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