Unity (Doctrine of the Church)

In the final hours before the cross, Christ’s prayer in John 17 reveals the heartbeat of His mission—our unity in Him. Not a unity of institutional sameness, but of shared life in the truth, sanctified by the Word, grounded in the love and purpose of the triune God. In this sermon, Rushdoony unfolds the meaning of being kept in God’s name, the nature of eternal life as knowing God here and now, and the church’s calling to reflect the unity of the Trinity—not by erasing differences, but by living in harmony under Christ’s lordship. This is unity not as a strategy, but as a witness to the world that Jesus is Lord.