Page 117 - Fundamentals Ebook

My nose might say, “I want to go out and smell flowers.” My back
says, “I want to go to bed.” My mouth says, “I’m hungry.” My
hand says, “I want to throw a ball.” What confusion! That’s the
confusion in the church today. It’s because they don’t have one life.
Every Christian has his own life. One wants to go one way and one
wants to go the other way. That’s why He says, “Hold fast the head
because then there is one life in the body.” If one hand is related to
my head, and the other hand is related to my head, it’s perfect unity.
If you are related to Jesus and I’m related to Jesus, we are one.

We don’t need to have unity in the church by having many
programs. The way to be one is to hold fast to the Head. I want to
show you the difference between light and life. The strength of unity
is in life. Different Christians have different light. Some see it one
way and some see it another way. When you base unity on light,
there is division. The Calvinists see it one way and he goes that
way. The Armenians see it another way and he goes that way. The
dispensationalists see it one way and he goes that way. Those in the
Covenant Theology see it another way and they go that way. One
person says, “We need all the spiritual gifts.” Another says, “The
gifts don’t exist anymore.” Another says, “We need a baptism of
the Holy Spirit.” Another says, “We need to baptize babies.” Others
say, “No, it’s only for adults.” So, everybody has their division on
light. Churches split and seminaries split but every split is based on
light.

I’m embarrassed to say that when I was a pastor, my church split.
You’d be amazed at what they split over. They were arguing over
whether we should put gravel in the driveway or seashells in the
driveway! If we had gravel, we had to pay for it. If we had seashells,
it was given to us as a gift but it would smell like fish for one week.
So, there was a big argument. People started to get angry and began
to cry. Some left the church and never came back because we were
based on light.