I really believe with all my heart that one of the great blessings and benefits of a church

that has clear doctrine and clear teaching and handles the word of God accurately and precisely

is that it gets a legacy of unity because the people think the same thing.

They render the same judgments. They agree.

Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

What practical steps can you take to cultivate unity in your church,

and why is it so important? Consider those questions with John MacArthur today on Grace to You as he

continues his study titled The Pillars of Christian Character. Now, to help introduce today's

lesson on biblical unity, a much-discussed topic in evangelicalism today,

we asked John MacArthur a question that every church, every Christian organization, and every individual believer,

will wrestle with at some point or another.

The question is typically phrased like this.

How can followers of Christ pursue unity without compromising biblical truth? And here were John's thoughts on that. Yeah, you've just

answered the question in posing the question. When you say, how can followers of Christ pursue

unity without compromising biblical truth? The answer is by

pursuing unity without compromising biblical truth. We cannot compromise biblical truth. We have unity

of the faith, unity in the truth. There can be no legitimate true unity

if we set aside doctrine.

And that's so often the call.

You know, let's not be divisive,

let's not separate people,

let's not be intolerant of people with other views.

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