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Steven Guthrie reminds us that, while we enact our unity through singing together, it is only the work of God that breaks down walls and creates the new human (1 Corinthians 12:13 and Ephesians 2:14, 4:1-6).
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The fact that music often brings division reminds us that music does not create the new human, God does—in Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit, Paul says, who brings about oneness: “In the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit” (1 Cor. 12:13; cf. Eph. 4:1-6). Music cannot summon up from within itself the power to “break down the dividing walls” and “abolish the hostility between us” (see Eph. 2:14). This is the work of God.
—Steven R. Guthrie, Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human, 91
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1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 2:14, 4:1-6
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