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Speaking the same, no divisions

 1 Corinthians 1:10  [Authorized King James Version]  "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."

Read that verse by its self and also in context with the whole.  Is that what the body of Christ is doing today in their services?  Is that we are being told and taught.  When I read Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12:12-134, Romans 12:4, and other texts that we are to be "perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."  I find that for one to say I'm of this or that denomination is to reject the counsel of God, of being disobedient and unbelieving.  "I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.  There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."  Ephesians 4:1-6 

       

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