Redeemer Church of Waterford

What is the unity of the Spirit? It is not the human spirit of brotherliness or camaraderie. It is not a compromising ecumenism. It is not a feeling or spirit that we create.

The unity of the Spirit is the objective toward which God is working out all of history: to gather in one in all things in Christ (Ephesians 1:10).

In today's message, we consider the nature of the unity of the Spirit and how this unity is to be maintained and guarded in the church.

All organizations know what they do. Some organizations know how they do it. Even fewer organizations know why they do what they do. The only way to have passion in an organization is to know the why and make certain that how and what the organization does is never in conflict with the why.

What is the church’s why? Paul gives the answer in Ephesians 3:9-11.

What are the attributes of Jesus which make Him attractive to sinners so that they come to believe on Him for salvation?

In the case of Nicodemus, on the surface it seems it was the miracles which Jesus performed which drew him to Jesus at night. But there is much more going on beneath the surface, in the heart of Nicodemus, which is revealed in his conversation with Jesus in John 3. Jesus addresses the deepest longings of our hearts even when we think we are drawn to Him for other reasons.