Division and party spirit destroy the Church and hinder its mission. To restore the unity, peace and Purity of the Church is the greatest need of the age. The desired unity can be found nowhere but in Christ and His simple Word. Our desires for ourselves and our brethren would be that, rejecting human opinions and the inventions of men as of any authority, we might forever cease from further contentions about such things . . . It is urged that disunity is an offence against the love which is the foundation principle of the Christian religion.
Schism makes unreal the Fatherhood of God.
It breaks congregations into pieces, fosters a wrong spirit, and deprives Christians of ministry and ordinances if they happen to live at a distance from others of their own denomination. All who love the Lord Jesus should determine to conform to the model and adopt the practice of the primitive Church as described in the New Testament. This is the only way to regain the lost Christian unity, purity and prosperity. Unity in Essentials Encouragement is found in the fact that it is only in non-essentials that Christians are divided. With regard to the essential things of Christ there is unity.