unity- one body

Start- story of my faith;
Jesus, Lord and Savior. Isa43:11 "I, even I, am the Lord,and apart from me there is no savior.12I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you."
Division in family over Catholic /Christian.
But miss Jesus in their traditions. Adventures in missing the point.
It breaks my heart to see people loose Jesus in the details or the form. Don't you get it? It's not about

John 17:23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

Ephesians 4:3-5 "Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

How many hopes do we have? Does youth group have a different hope than ICCP?
Does the Catholic church have a different Spirit than the Christian church? Are we many bodies because there is one head and that is Jesus.

Will people tune me out when I mention a certain author or use a line from his book like adventure of missing the point? Will we turn against each other?
Will we keep the relationships in mind? Keep Jesus in mind? How many men do we have faith in? ONE
One God and Father of all.

"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Exodus 20:2-6 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3“You shall have no other gods beforea me.

4“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments. (What are we putting before Jesus? Why are we not thinking of the kingdom? He is one)

One body
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Find Christ is the head of the church

1 Corinthians 12- we as one body

This is how they will know you are mine is that you love one another.

Prayer in the garden. Blood dripping out his pours about to be crucified and three times he prayes for unity.

"10I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. 11My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. 12What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Cephasa”; still another, “I follow Christ.”

13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized intob the name of Paul? 14I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15so no one can say that you were baptized into my name. 16(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t remember if I baptized anyone else.) 17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;

the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”c

20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. " 1Cor 1:10-24

And What is the wisdom of our age? Do we follow a type of church model? A book? an insight as accurate as it might be