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Why can the Church live and move and have its being? Because
the life in the members is the life of the Head. Christ is the head.
He’s the life of the Church. Look at these verses, please.
Chapter 4:15-16,

“Speaking the truth in love; we are to grow up in all aspects
into Him Who is the head, even Christ, from Whom the whole
body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint
supplies, according to the proper working of each individual
part, causes the growth of the body for the building of itself
up in love.”

If God’s people walked in the revelation that we are His Body,
they could solve many of the problems in the physical Church.
Most especially because the body illustration in Ephesians throws
a flood light on what is called “Christian unity”.

You hear a lot about Christian unity. Always distinguish the
difference between unity and expressions of unity. Here’s what I
mean by that. Unity is not cooperation. Great day! You can
cooperate for a hundred years with somebody and still not have
unity with them. It’s deeper than that. Unity is not cooperation. It
expresses itself in cooperation, but unity is not cooperation.
Someone might say that unity is proximity, geography. There are
many husbands and wives who live in close proximity and trust
me, there’s no unity.

Unity is not social occasions. I feel sorry for the groups that are
deluded into thinking that by gathering people and social
occasions they are going to create some kind of unity. A lot of
time it’s used for young people in the Church. “Let’s get the
young people active and we’ll go bowling or skating or we’ll have a
pizza party or something like that in order to produce unity.” You’ll
attract them for social occasions, but it can’t create Christian
unity. Unity expresses itself in cooperation, in proximity and social
occasions. But those things are not unity. There are a million and