Covenant Reformed News – September 2009 • Volume XII, Issue 17
This article from Covenant Reformed News expounds on Ephesians 4:4-6, emphasizing the essential role of the Holy Spirit as the life-giving principle that animates the body of Christ and enables true worship and obedience. The author exhorts Reformed believers to cultivate unity in the visible church by maintaining doctrinal purity, evangelizing the lost, and fostering fellowship with like-minded churches, all empowered by the one Spirit rather than worldly or false spiritual influences.
One Body Animated by One Spirit (2) We must not suppose that the unity of the invisible or mystical body of the church (Eph. 4:4-6) has nothing to say to us as members of visible, instituted churches. First, we must know, and think of, the glorious unity of the whole company of those predestinated as the one church, body and bride of Christ. Second, we must seek to manifest that unity as members of true, instituted churches. Third, we must serve the church’s unity on a wider scale by...