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In His prayer in John 17, the Lord Jesus prays for the oneness of the church on earth: "That they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me" (v.21). If we omit the middle parenthetical section of this passage and read the remainder: "That they may all be one, that the world may believe that thou didst send me; we can clearly see that the oneness of the church is to induce the world to believe . Since those
I would like to stress here that the oneness of the body is the unity of the church. The church’s unity is limited to the body and cannot be extended beyond the body. The word of God never sanctions oneness with nominal Christians. . . .
Let us see now what the church is. The church is composed of all who have the life of Christ, all those to whom Christ has imparted himself. These people are the body of Christ. Consequently, Christian oneness includes all the children of God. It does not embrace any nominal Christian [false Christian] who has not been regenerated and still belongs to the world. Such people do not belong to the church and thus are not included in its oneness . . .