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(By Ken Brown) What brings people together? Family relationships can be a cause even when there are no shared experiences. Two brothers raised separately might still feel an affinity toward one another for no other reason than that they are brothers. Common ideologies bring people together as do common goals. Neighborhoods form in which residents share a common cultural background. Seniors congregate at the senior center and bond together. Their age, and the challenges that go with it, giving them common ground. Shared experiences tend to bring people together, especially when those experiences are dramatic and/or unusual.
There are many other things that bring people together, but there is one element that is the bottom line for each of these things: something shared.
In God’s Word, we believers are directed to keep, or guard, the unity of the spirit. The key to maintaining the unity of the spirit is not to endeavor to become more like one another. It is to continually recognize that our differences are relatively insignificant compared to what we share.
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