Urgency of Christian unity
A great many thoughtful Christian people have a "what's the rush?" attitude toward unity. We have been a long time without unity among our churches; will we achieve it all at once? That thinking justifies a wait and see attitude. The trouble is that "wait and see" is an inherent contradiction, if you are the one who needs to act. If you wait you will never see anything happen, because you are the one to make it happen. I don't think we can wait around on this. Christianity is under attack on all fronts. Secularism and its fashionably amoral views are against us. Religious extremists in the Mideast and beyond are against us. Even some theological renegades within our own ranks oppose the historic Christian faith and upend its morality. If all that is not cause enough to act, I have difficulty imagining what is.