Brothers and Sisters, 

In the Adult Sunday School Class this past week, we explored the importance of unity for the Church.  We discussed the fact that Christian Unity is not two people agreeing with each other.  It is both persons agreeing with Christ.  Today, I ran across a brief teaching by A. W. Tozer (see below) on the importance of Unity for the mission of the Church.  He likens disunity in the church to broken wiring in a house.  The power source may be available, but it is prevented from reaching the whole house.  Revival and blessing come when there is unity.

God bless you all,
Henry+

A. W. Tozer, on Unity that Leads to Revival 

Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.—Acts 4:32-33

...unity of mind on the part of the people of God precedes the blessing. I have often heard people pray, "Oh Lord, send the Holy Spirit that we may become a united people." That is all right except it is precisely backwards. The Holy Spirit comes because we are a united people; He does not come to make us a united people. Our prayer should be more like, "Lord, help us to get united in order that the blessing might flow and there might be an outpouring of oil and dew and life." That's the way we should pray....

This teaches us that unity is necessary to the outpouring of the Spirit of God. If you have 120 volts of electricity coming into your house but you have broken wiring, you may turn the switch, but nothing works-no lights come on, the stove doesn't warm, your radio doesn't turn on. Why? Because you have broken wiring. The power is ready to do its work with all the appliances in your home, but where there is broken wiring, you have no power. Unity is necessary among the children of God if we are going to know the flow of power. Success and the Christian, 86-87.

"Lord, help us to get united in order that the blessing might flow and there might be an outpouring of oil and dew and life. Amen."