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title: 'Warfield on Striving for Church Unity'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-05-14
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-warfield-on-striving-for-church-unity
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# Warfield on Striving for Church Unity

“All that tends to perfect the Church or any branch of the Church in any department of Christian life or effort is, therefore, a step toward that perfect expression of unity for which we should all long. All that tends to obscure the necessity for a perfect order, form, faith under a spurious appearance of agreement, postpones the attainment. The true pathway seems, then, to lead us as our present duty to:

1\. Hearty recognition of all Christians as members of the body of Christ, and of all denominations which preach the Gospel of Christ as sections of this one body.

2\. Hearty and unwavering testimony to all God’s truth known to us, as the truth of God to be confessed by all his people.

3\. Cooperation in all good works as brethren.

4\. Formal federation of denominations for prosecuting tasks common to the federated bodies, so far as such federation involves no sacrifice of principle or testimony.” — [**B**.**B. Warfield**](/authors/b-b-warfield), *True Church Unity: What It Is* (1890)