Unity in Truth and Love

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/index.php/2008/01/03/truth-and-unity-donald-carson/

[Anglican Mainstream] 4 Jan 2008--Christian unity is first of all the unity enjoyed by genuine Christians. It flows from the cross, from the gift of the Spirit, from regeneration; we were all baptised in one Spirit into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, Asian or Caucasian or African, and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.208. Inevitably that imposes upon us the test of the gospel itself. If people are claiming to be Christians, but are in fact preaching another Jesus and a different gospel,21 then they are ‘false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ’.22 Our current infatuation with the widespread cultural commitment to refuse to say anyone is wrong makes us uncomfortable with such plain speech. Paul’s own assessment is more robust: he says we should not be surprised by false apostles and deceitful workers because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.23