Oneness Oneness

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On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:36:15 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>Something that troubles me a great deal is the disunity of Oneness believers.

>In this modern day of racial tolerance and increasing (though imperfect)
>civil rights, what prevents a greater unity between Oneness believers.
>And of course, we must also consider the smaller Oneness organisations
>(ie. Apostolic Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ, Fire-Baptised Church of
>the Apostolic Faith, etc.).

Sometimes it is reasonable for there to be numerous administrations
for the sake of operability. Because we do not do the same programs,
does not mean we are not in unity.

>We believe the same great doctrines of Acts 2.38 Salvation and the mighty
>God in Christ and varying degrees of holiness.  Could we not be strengthened
>in evangelism through a greater concentration of effort and fellowship?  We
>are all admitted to the body of Christ through the one Lord, one faith and
>one Baptism.

Yes, that IS true.

>I am not calling for a surrender of the sovereignty and polity of every
>Oneness organisation to the UPC, but I would like to see Oneness Conferences,
>Convocations--services and meetings dedicated to unity of people of like-
>precious faith and our mission to spread this great Gospel.

My experience has been that there is extensive and increasing unity
among Apostolics, and that there is VERY little antipathy between
Apostolic organizations. Increasingly there is commication and
inter-awareness.

I am not in agreement with the anti-organoization message recently
written for reasons which I will address when a LARGE block of time
become available.

Racial, community and organization unity are all on the rise in the
church, Brother, AND we are working toward that end.

Interestingly, a local church here, which we did not know existed
called for Bro David Bernard to come and speak concerning the Oneness
of God. We were all informed and will be attending this Sat, to
fascilitate the creating of more links and Oneness of purpose in the
church at large.

By the way, I am a pastor licensed with the UPC.

-mwb