Unity in Ekklesia

Unity among humans is profoundly powerful. Yahweh said that the fools who elected Nimrod as their leader could do anything they decided to do, because they had one mind and one language (Genesis 11).

Unity in the body of Jesus is even more powerful than what is possible among mere humans! When pastors agree to move together on a project, things become possible that were not possible without the power of agreement pushing it forward. Evangelists who work together can multiply their effectiveness in an area or among a people. The same is true of any spiritual gift.

Unity between giftings creates even more power. The day is coming when pastors and prophets and evangelists and teachers and apostles are going to build together. The power that is produced in that unified house of God will equip every believer to do ministry.

Now grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the Messiah’s gift. For it says:

When He ascended on high,
He took prisoners into captivity;
He gave gifts to people.

But what does “He ascended” mean except that He descended to the lower parts of the earth? The One who descended is the same as the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the training of the saints in the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ, until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness. Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit. But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ. From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.
(Ephesians 4:7-16 HCSB ©®)