Some of you might be thinking, ‘If we’re ever going to have real unity in the Church, we have to get rid of all our differences.’ Actually, the opposite is true—DIVERSITY contributes to, and promotes real unity – the greater the diversity, the more potentially attractive and glorifying to God—our unity is going to be.
God’s design for the Church is that we worship, fellowship, cooperate, and interact together in unity—but the means by which He makes our unity more beautiful and more glorious is through, what might be called a ‘gracious diversity’ (v.7).
1st – What makes us all different? – GRACE! – God giving us what we don’t deserve.
2nd – WHO makes us different? – the Lord Jesus Christ
3rd – HOW does He make us different? (v.7-8) – by giving us spiritual GIFTS…
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
