Arriving at the Oneness of the Faith

It is only in the Son of God that we can arrive at the oneness of the faith. If we truly know the Son of God inwardly, whether we keep the Lord’s Day or the Sabbath day will not matter to us. Romans 14:5 says, “One judges one day above another; another judges every day alike. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.” The Jews asked the Lord Jesus about the matter of profaning the Sabbath, and the Lord replied, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath” (Matt. 12:8). Actually, it is not a matter of the Sabbath but a matter of the Lord.

Only when we take Christ as the center and focus on Him can we arrive at the oneness of the faith…Once we deviate from this center, the oneness is gone. The more we firmly hold to the center—Christ, the Son of God—the fewer problems we will have; however, if we lose the center, we will have problems…If we truly know the Son of God, there will be no arguments. (CWWL, 1952, vol. 2, “How to Administrate the Church,” pp. 87-88)

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What Do You Love?

Also, two kinds of nonlovers are mentioned: nonlovers of good and nonlovers of God (2 Tim. 3:3-4). Whatever one loves, his whole heart, even his entire being, is set on and occupied and possessed by. This is crucial! Whether there would be a day of glory in the church’s victory or grievous days of the church’s decline depends altogether on what we set our heart upon, what it is we love. History tells us that the root of the church’s decline was the loss of her first love toward the Lord (Rev. 2:4). To maintain the victorious standard of the church, we must be lovers of God and lovers of the good that pertains to God’s economy. (Life-study of 2 Timothy, pp. 41-42)