| Unity in New Testament perspective (1420 words) |
 | The vision of unity in John is primarily limited to the Christian community and is doubtless emphasised because John's community threatened to fall apart on precisely how to understand the nature of Jesus who is the basis of unity. |
| Yet despite this fact, commitment to unity must include the lively, open and honest, juxtaposition of streams and statements of the tradition, including biblical tradition, and the ongoing flexibility to enable the vision of the kingdom as espoused by Jesus not to be lost. |
| The quest for unity is one of the ways of losing that vision where harmony compromises justice and love; but, informed by the theology of compassion enunciated in Jesus' vision of the kingdom and lived in his life, the quest for unity gives expression to heart of the gospel. |
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