• With One Accord

  Contributed by Marianne Unger on May 28, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Acts 1:14

  Tags:  Church Body Of Christ

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WITH ONE ACCORD

But notice one very important phrase that some of the translations left out: "They were all with one accord in one place."

This word in the Greek, "Homothumadon" has two parts to it--a sense of coming together, but in unison, in one accord.

This word in the T.R., Homothumadon, helps us understand the uniqueness of the Christian community.

The image is almost musical; a number of notes are sounded which, while different, harmonize in pitch and tone, as the instruments of a great concert under the direction of a concert master, so that the Holy Spirit blends together the lives of members of Christ’s church.