In Vintage Church we begin to transition into some more practical aspects of the life of the church. In chapter six we answer the question "How Can a Church Be Unified?" The following excerpt concerning church unity comes from Vintage Church page 138: Every church and every church leader knows the painful cost they must pay when there is disunity. While a lack of unity does not always rise to the level of betrayal that Judas demonstrated, every breach in unity costs the leaders time, energy, emotion, and momentum. Division is often the cause of the greatest stress, pain, conflict, and despair in any church. I hope in writing this chapter to help churches and Christians define and defend unity. Theologically, unity is to be pursued by churches and among churches for five reasons. (1) Jesus prayed for it often. (2) As the leadership goes, so goes the rest of the church. (3) Without unity spiritual health and growth cannot be maintained because the church gets diverted from Jesus and his mission for them. (4) Unity is fragile because it is gained slowly and lost quickly, which requires that it never be assumed or taken for granted. (5) Paul repeatedly commands unity in churches (1 Cor. 1:10; 2 Cor. 13:11; Eph. 4:3; Phil. 1:27).