"one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all ..." (Ephesians 4:5-6)

Everything about our unity points away from ourselves.

 * Our unity is in the Lord. He did not wait for us to come to him. He came to us and for us.

 * Our unity is in the faith. This faith is not a man-centred faith. It's a faith that has been given to us - by revelation (Matthew 16:16-17).

 * Our unity is in our baptism. We did not baptize ourselves. We heave been baptized  "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19).

 * Our unity is in in God, our Father. Before we loved him, he loved us. Before we reached out to him, he was reaching out to us. In love, he was reaching out to us - to bring us to himself.