What does First B Jackson teach about christian unity?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on Christian unity starts with what Jesus himself most wanted for the church. When Pastor Joseph Kamau Kabui preached from John 17:20-26, he drew attention to the fact that the disciples were present and listening as Jesus prayed, making this effectively Jesus's last public declaration of his desires for the church across all generations. Pastor Kamau pressed four reasons from the text for why unity matters: it demonstrates that believers actually know God, it shows that they are in genuine union with him and not merely informed about him, it is directly tied to evangelism because a visibly united church draws outsiders to ask why, and it is a foretaste of the eternal gathering of every nation and language before God that Revelation describes.
The word-study message on homothumadon, the Greek adverb translated 'in one accord' throughout Acts, traced the early church from Jerusalem outward and showed that unity is not always a virtue in itself. Pastor Mark pointed out that the same word describes the crowd stoning Stephen, which means it is entirely possible to be unified in the wrong direction. The positive uses, the disciples praying together in Acts 1 and 2, the whole group crying out to God in Acts 4 after Peter and John were beaten, were what made the church magnetic and what kept the mission moving. Being of one mind is a description of how the early church moved, and the pattern is one worth living into now.
Both messages hold together on this: unity is not a program or a policy but something that grows out of genuine shared life with God. Pastor Kamau used the image of a mutual friend drawing strangers together in a room, and pointed to Acts 4 where the Sanhedrin could see, just by looking at Peter and John, that they had been with Jesus. The glory was visible on them. When the church is truly one, something shows that words alone cannot carry.
Taught from John 17:20-26 · Acts 1:13-14 · Acts 2 · Acts 4 · Acts 7:54-60
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 11
1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- September 7, 2025 With One Mind: A Word Study Through Acts A word study through the book of Acts traces every use of "homothumedon," the Greek word for one accord, asking what true unity in Christ looks like.
- June 29, 2025 That All of Them May Be One Pastor Joseph Kamau Kabui of Tigone Baptist Church in Kenya preaches on John 17, calling believers to demonstrate their unity with God and one another.
- June 29, 2025 That All of Them May Be One Pastor Joseph Kamau Kabui of Togoni Baptist Church in Kenya preaches from John 17 on why Christian unity matters and what it tells the world about Jesus.
Mentioned along the way
- May 18, 2025 Two Issues, One Mission Paul and Barnabas split over John Mark, Timothy gets circumcised for mission's sake: a study in disagreement, grace, and carrying the gospel forward together.
- November 13, 2016 Nothing Is Unclean in Itself Romans 14 sermon on disputable matters, stumbling blocks, and how righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit unite believers across differences.
- November 6, 2016 Worry About Yourself Romans 14 asks Christians to aggressively welcome those who differ on disputable matters, not to judge them, since every believer answers to Christ alone.
- November 11, 2015 WWW Be Right (13) Romans 14 calls Christians to stop judging each other over nonessential convictions and to pursue unity, living by faith and love rather than personal freedom.
- February 25, 2015 Walk Worthy of Your Calling Ephesians 4 study on walking worthy of your calling through humility, patience, love, and peacemaking, and discovering how God's gifts build unity in the church.