CQOD: 01/14/07 -- Allen: unity in the Holy Spirit

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 14, 2007

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915

Meditation:
    Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
    -- 1 Corinthians 12:3 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It will perhaps be said that in our present state of schism this assertion of spiritual principle [as in 1 Cor. 12:3] can give us no definite guidance for action, can provide us with no clear program, and must remain unfruitful. Surely that is not wholly true. It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. If men believe in the existence of this unity, they may begin to desire it, and desiring it to seek for it, and seeking it to find it. If, when they find it, they refuse to deny it, in due time, by ways now unsearchable, they will surely return to external communion.
    ... Roland Allen (1869-1947), Pentecost and the World [1917]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, we acknowledge that our unity comes from Your Spirit alone.

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