1) STRENGTH IN UNION - illustration
A visitor to an insane asylum noted the patients sitting about the buildings and grounds with only a guard here and there to watch after them. A number of these were young girls who seemed to have no fear whatever.

“Are you not afraid these inmates may become violent and do you bodily harm?” a visitor asked one of the girls.

“Not in the least,” was the reply.

“Suppose they should organize themselves and at a prearranged moment should attack you, what would you do?”

“Organize! Organize!” said the girl contemptuously, “if they had sense enough to organize they would not be here!”

SOURCE: Unknown

COMMENT: It's sad if our congregations are so lacking in unity that nothing gets done. Are we a house of the Lord or a house of the insane?

2) UNITY: IT'S UNIVERSAL CALL - quote
Unity… It is the last word with which an athletic coach sends his boys into a game, the slogan with which an industrial leader seeks to put his staff on their toes, the insistent demand of politicians as they gird themselves for the battle of votes.

Reim, Edmund. The Strength of Christian Unity, p. 11
Essays on Church Fellowship (1996)

COMMENT: What better place should there be a call for unity - then within the community of saints.