Today, Challies posted these 12 Ways to Preserve Christian Unity, which he gleaned from the puritan Thomas Brooks's Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices. Click through to read more in depth explanation.
#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses.
#2. Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity.
#3. Meditate on God’s many commands demanding that we love one another.
#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement.
#5. Consider your peaceful God.
#6. Renew in your mind and heart what it means to be at peace with God.
#7. Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians.
#8. Count the cost of disunity.
#9. Be the first to seek peace and reconciliation.
#10. Walk and work together with other Christians as far as possible, making the Word the only judge of your actions.
#11. Judge yourself more than you judge others.
#12. Pursue humility.
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