What Do We Have in Common?

No two people on this earth are exactly alike. However, friendships are often formed between people who have things in common. We may enjoy similar activities, eat at the same restaurant, or find the same events interesting. As God’s people, there are some things we must have in common – love, faith, and salvation.

In the first century church, “all who believed were together, and had all things in common (Acts 2:44; 4:32).” Thus, they shared all that they had to help each other in a time of need. Do we have that love today?

Consider other things Christians have in common: salvation and faith! Jude 3 states: “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” We are all saved one way – God’s way! Thus, we must contend for the faith that we all have in common.

There is one faith (Ephesians 4:5), and it comes from hearing God’s Word (Romans 10:17). Paul even called Titus his “true son in our common faith (Titus 1:4).”

Do we truly have love, faith and salvation in common?