Top Highlights

• dependence on God is necessary for its understanding and application.
• Ultimately, true unity must be built on true truth. Any other kind of unity is earthly, worldly, temporal, and thus falls short of the John 17 ideal.
• unity that exists without truth is mushy, misguided, and meaningless.
• however, enables us to see that those who promote a kind of unity not grounded in truth and those who champion truth without a concern for love and unity are hardly consistent with scriptural teaching or the aspirations of the Nicene Creed.
• So, as affirmed in the historical creed, the church is not only one and universal, but also holy and apostolic. True holiness is based on truth taught by the apostles and made known to us in Holy Scripture (John 14:6; 16:13; 17:17).