The material which was originally found on this page has become the seed of one chapter of a soon-to-be-released book:
Stephens, Lauston and Ian Johnson, Our Oneness in Christ (PublishAmerica, 2007).
NOTICE: Our Oneness in Christ is now in its first printing, as of December 26, 2006, and is scheduled for formal release on February 26, 2007. Go to the link above for a summary of the book and publication details!
Summary of the original contents of this page (now in the book):On this page originally resided an essay by Lauston Stephens that ties our oneness as believers not to the Bible or to church organizations, but to the nature of God. Indeed, the true source of our relationships between each other as believers is the relationships within God Himself. Our oneness is God's picture of Himself to the world. We are the image of God's oneness.
God's nature contains diversity of persons, in mutual submission to each other. It is also characterized by order. Diversity, mutual submission and order in God are not in tension with each other, but complement each other. It is to be the same among us.
