About the book

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This book is the fourth book in the series. Here is the author's introduction to the book:​​

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Book four is slightly different in approach from the first three books. Books 1 to 3 removed ignorance about Church, Worship, and Tradition. This book builds the house. Unity is the roof that covers all lambs so that the rain of division cannot enter.

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Beloved lamb, if you have ever wept over the divisions in the Body of Christ, this book is for you.

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We say “one Body” (1 Cor. 12:12). Yet we live like many bodies. Denomination vs denomination. Nation vs nation. Building vs building. Doctrine vs doctrine. Walls are everywhere.

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But Christ prayed one prayer before He died: “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.” (John 17:21)

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If Jesus prayed it, it must be possible. If the Body is still broken, something is attacking it.

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This book names the attackers. We call them 16 Viruses of Unity, not because “Unity” is sick, but because viruses hide, spread, and kill without being seen. They are deadly teachings that break the Body of Christ. Satan’s main weapon is division. When lambs are ignorant, they fight each other over names, days, traditions, and ceremonies, instead of standing one in Christ (1 Cor. 1:10).

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What is a Virus of Unity?
Any teaching, tradition, system, or mindset that breaks what Christ joined (Matt. 19:6). It may sound “spiritual”, it may look “biblical”, but its fruits are division, pride, and cold hearts.

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Some Such Viruses That We Will Expose

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• Group salvation: our church or denomination or nation has it (Eze. 18:20).

• Wrong headship: man ruling where Christ should rule (Col. 1:18).

• Clergy vs laity: two classes in Christ’s Body (1. Pet. 2:9).

• Denominational spirit: “I am of Paul”, “I am of Apollos” (1 Cor. 1:12).

• Ceremonial idolatry and money: buildings, funds, fleecing (Eze. 34:2).

• Control and hierarchy: lordship instead of servant-leadership (Matt. 20:25).

• Wrong gospel: preaching Moses, culture, or self, instead of Christ (1 Cor. 15:1-4).

• Fear and threats: Heb. 6:6 used to chain, not to heal.

• Human traditions: making void the word of God (Mark 7:13).

• Competition: comparing, measuring, striving (2 Cor. 10:12).

• Partiality: respect of persons (Jam. 2:1).

• Secret sins in leaders: covering what should be judged (1 Cor. 5:6).

• Dead orthodoxy: having a form of godliness, but denying its power (2 Tim. 3:5).

• Offence and unforgiveness: root of bitterness (Heb. 12:15).

• Lack of “remnant mindset”: forgetting that God saves individuals, not institutions (Rom. 11:5).

 

How to Read This Book
Do not read to judge others. Read with one question in mind: “Lord, is this virus in me?”

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Ps. 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

The purpose is not to attack people. The purpose is to expose viruses so that Christ can heal the Body (Eph. 4:16).

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The goal is not perfect organization. The goal is Christ. When He is truly all, we are truly one: “Christ is all, and in all.” (Col. 3:11)

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Lambs do not fight other lambs. Wolves do. So if your heart burns for unity, not for victory in arguments, then turn the page.

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The Good Shepherd is calling His sheep by name (John 10:3). He is calling us out of systems that divide, into Himself who unites.

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Shall we begin?

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Michael James Ekperikpe

Evangelist and Team Lead, READ AND REAP MISSION

Port Harcourt, Nigeria.​​