Unity is not sameness of persons. It's one is of purpose.

Dr. Tony Evans is putting God first can't help but

result in unity for believers. Unity is moving in the same

direction because you want God involved in the legitimacy

of the boat. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony

Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible

Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban

Alternative. God doesn't want us all to be the same,

but he does want us to be one. Today, Dr. Evans looks

at the importance of unity in ministry and how God deals

with division in the church. Let's join him as he begins.

My green lawn is regularly disrupted by ant hills.

Whenever you know what it is to have a mound on your lawn

disrupting your life, the life of the greenery on your lawn,

these ants are committed to a queen and they're building

a kingdom on my lawn. When these ants build this kingdom on my lawn

killing the grass in the sphere of where they are raising

their kingdom in service to their queen, they fight being

disrupted. If they're red ants, they go and bite.

Because they don't want their kingdom, that's just

rupt in your lawn kingdom to be in a feed with because

they've got a queen to serve. You and I have a king to serve.

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