•We are united first and foremost in Christ

•We are all a part of the body of Christ

•Things that divide us (preferences – silly things)

•Essentials: E.g. The nature of God & Man

•Enduring/eternal things that matter (people & salvation).

All of them practice fraud, prophets and priests alike. They treat the wound of my people as though it were a minor bruise, saying, “All is well,” when in reality, disaster looms on the horizon.

[ NCB ]

Whereas the Old Testament demanded that men should love their neighbors as themselves, the New Law is that they should love the brethren better than themselves, and die for their friends.

Then all my servile works were done

 A righteousness to raise;

Now, freely chosen in the Son,

 I freely choose His ways.

To see the law by Christ fulfilled,

 And hear His pardoning voice,

Changes a slave into a child,

 And duty into choice.

William Cowper