Some of you know I attend Grace Covenant Church. I have to tell you – Pastor Lemings gave what has to be the BEST sermon of his career on Sunday March 6th as part of his current “Unity: God’s Plan” series.
(If you want to listen/watch it simply visit http://gracecovenant.org/media/sermons/unity-part-2-gcc/)

“Unity is not optional, but CRITICAL if ____________ is to be healthy and effective in their mission. We are charged to make every effort to keep the spirit of unity”

Like most churches the sermon notes seek engagement for you to “fill in the blank,” and while the answer he had was “Church”, I was sitting there realizing you can put anything you want in that blank and the same truth applies.

Unity is needed for any are of your life to be effective; you can’t have God’s blessing over your life if it’s fragmented, disjointed, divided or separated. Unity is the core philosophy of Chiropractic and Functional Medicine:

In order for you to be healthy and effective in your ability to heal itself, you spine must be unified – aligned in such a way that it works together for a greater good. Take one segment of the 24 and divide it, “dis-joint” it and you no longer have unity – instead you have a separation of your brain’s ability to communicate with the end organ/cell/tissue, resulting in dis-ease (a lack of unity) and ultimately disease (organic dysfunction).

In order for your metabolism to be healthy and effective you must have unity between nearly 3,000+ chemical reactions that occur in your body at any given time. If even one of the substrates of the Citric Acid Cycle is separated or deficient, the entire “engine of energy” becomes dysfunctional and you pay the price metabolically (weight gain, fatigue, inability to heal yourself etc)

Your immune system requires a plethora of vitamins, minerals and enzymes, among other things, to provide you with powerful protection and healing. If even one of these is separated from its co-factors or parent enzymes nothing happens – and various invaders can overtake the body resulting in dis-ease and ultimately disease!

These are just a few examples of what happens when unity is broken and what I love about Chiropractic and Functional medicine is we, the doctors, are trained to locate the fragmented, disjointed divided or separated systems and bring them back into “alignment” such that your body becomes unified with itself, and God’s power, such that it heals itself! (Without the use of allopathic prescription, procedures etc)

Here’s the second epiphany I had sitting in church on Sunday: the KING of fragmentation is the Devil/Satan/The Adversary – whose sole purpose is to destroy unity – via self-focused, self-consumed attitudes and a spirit of “being right” as more valuable than being united. If there’s one healing system that is full of “dis-unity” its medicine!

Think about it from a superficial level – “they” say you are the collaboration of separate systems, each unique and divided from one anther – so “disjointed” that they now have 135 specialties and another 40 subspecialties in medicine (Dermatology, anesthesiology, psychiatry, nephrology, neurology, cardiology etc etc etc).

Medicine as a whole violates the principle of “healthy and effective in their mission” for this very reason – and it is the current, as well as the past and future, downfall that makes allopathic medicine the failure that it is!

Wait a second, a failure?! Surely with all the advances in technology and time we have made an impact on the overall health of our nation, and world for that matter?! Right?! What are the rates of the “major diseases” doing? Is cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s becoming a distant conversion for us? NO – if anything the rates of these, and other chronic health conditions have not only gotten worse, some have exponentially worsened. Why such failure – disjointedness, division, separation and a system full of “the adversary”

PS, did you know that the word Pharmacology is closely rated to Phamakeia (sorcery/witchcraft and the casting of spells discussed in the Bible) and the core symbol of medicine “the Caduceus” is a staff with two snakes coiled around it! Snakes can represent death, destruction, evil, a penetrating legless essence, and/or poison. In the Christian faith, Satan (in the guise of the serpent) instigated the fall by tricking Eve into breaking God’s command. Thus, the serpent can represent temptation, the devil, and deceit. Two snakes on the staff intertwining to show the “dual nature” of the devil – pure evil yet at the same time the great counterfeiter/mimicker of God/Jesus. Makes you wonder if this was with intention or just coincidence!?!?!?

So where does this lead us – you must find UNITY in your life to have gods blessings, your health and to be effective in your “mission” aka LIFE!.

What Hinders Unity?

– The Adversary who seeks to devour you through division (1st Peter 5:8). The devil hates unity & loves separation.

• When your focus on is “Me, myself and I” – self-centeredness and self-consumption (Philippians 2:3-4)
• When the value of “being right” is more valuable than connection/unity with one another (1 Corinthians 1:10-13)
• “We need not all agree, big if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements” – Mark DeHann
• Unforgiveness, which will always break down relationships, your health and even your mindset ultimately result in division.

God desires unity in your life. Not just for your health (a unified immune system, metabolism, neurological system etc) but for every area of your core being.

Even Jesus himself knew the importance of unity as he prayed for you in John 17:20-21  “I ask not only on behalf of these (his disciples), but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word (that’s you by the way), that they may all be one – UNIFIED!

May this bless you as the message blessed me this week!