In the book of Acts we are told they were all in one accord. Must have been crowded! Just what did it mean to be in one accord? Does it matter to Christians today? I think so. I found a T-shirt that expresses my fondness of my chickens. Whenever I'm in the back yard they "talk" to me. Only when they want food, water or snack though! We are not always in one accord. Then there are my family of origin. We aren't always in one accord as well. Immediate family? Same thing. How about my friends? We aren't always in one accord as well. Does this sound like your world? WHERE can we find fellow believers who are willing to be in one accord? What would that look like? I know their are some religious groups that try to do so and have some success. This one accord thing must be dependent on a core belief in order for it to be workable. A single minded focus that puts the will of God ahead of everything else. That would be surrender to Jesus. Giving up all that we are and think we are in order to be a part of God's plan without reservation. Abandonment of anything that would distract us from Jesus.
One accord. Do people want that to be their focus? I'm talking with the Christians now. If so, why are there so many differences? That's part of evidence that Christians today don't want to have all things in one accord. We have so many denominations split from one another way back to the time of the first church. Hence no one accord. The world wants us to accept and embrace other beliefs even if they are in stark contrast to what the Bible says. Why does the world want one accord while the Christian has no accord? Here is one caveat we can look at. Why is it that we're expected to follow the beliefs of different men and women who are supposedly doing what God wants us to do? The Catholic church has the Pope and all his underlings and they certainly don't represent the Biblical dictates. The Mormons likewise. Then there are over 200 kinds of Baptists! Not to mention so many other groups. Christians have become a bit to much like cults making laws and requirements that do anything but encourage one accord living. When the laws of man are held over the laws of God there is not one accord among the believers.
The Bible tells us there is ONE God and ONE Son and ONE Holy Spirit that make up ONE God. Do you believe that first and foremost? Is that one of the tenants of the faith that you hold onto? If so, why subject yourselves to the wants and desires of something man made? Capitulating you faith isn't the answer. We are called out of the world to be Christ to the world. We are not called out of being in one accord anywhere in Scripture. Personal desires, beliefs, and agendas are not part of being in one accord with God and other Christians. So much attention has been given to the rationalizing and justifying of the religions of the world that their attention to what God wants is superseded by those desire, beliefs, and agendas. There is no room for God. With God out of the equation, those claiming to follow God make themselves god of their own world and sometimes god of other's worlds as well. Do we really want Christian life living in one accord? Then we need to die to self and have Christ be the only life living through us. Remember that it's always your choice.
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