It is the last hour. The church is in spiritual terms an undivided entity, in that it is the one body of Christ. The schisms of the past did, however, really happen. The Reformation was a unique kind of schism because it brought into question the body of Christ as one body. The Protestants need legitimacy with the true members of the body of Christ worldwide or else they lack credibility and look like an attempt by mere men to create a new body of Christ. In my own experience I was convicted of my main sin when I was a young man, habitually lying. That was hanging over me as a very dark cloud. Books I was reading gave me a sense of being a bad person, in shame and disgrace. I was converted by a message of a street evangelist that Christ died for me. He took me into a Catholic church to pray with me. Catholics there were preparing for mass — communion as I called it as a Protestant. It was a large church building so we were able to pray at the front of the church while the others were gathering near the back. The Holy Spirit power came upon me as I confessed candidly, and the power broke my lying habit, by filling my voice with supernatural strength when I candidly prayed in truth and leaving me every time I started to lie and exalt myself. It must have been obvious to all in the building. The evangelist took me to those meeting for the bread and wine. They must have heard this powerful phenomenon and the way I prayed. They let me receive the bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ, with them, recognising the Holy Spirit had made us one. Apparently this is acceptable in Catholic law when the Holy Spirit obviously descends on someone even if the confessor is not a Catholic. I suggest this is how unity needs to happen. It is unity in the Holy Spirit and the name of Christ Jesus which is real unity. Binding as one those brought into the same gospel of the cross of Christ, the same power of cleansing from heaven, the same body and blood of the Lord’s Supper. This is the unity. Not something ecumenically engineered. Something heaven has engineered. We need to be brought together so that there is only one body of Christ. Then Christ will return to one body and gather all its members, dead and living, together to himself. Then there will be no schisms, no Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, etc.. Christ is not to be divided. There is one Lord’s Supper and we share in it or we don’t. The end will see only one Lord’s Supper in his kingdom.
