What is a lesson we can learn about unity within the local church?

In this video, Jeffrey Johnson shares a story about a man who voted against his church buying a grand piano, believing the money could be better spent on missions. However, after the vote, the man stood up and donated $100 towards the purchase, saying that he believed the unity of the brethren was more important than the piano. 

Johnson believes this act demonstrates a wonderful spirit of submission, showing that God loves unity and that conflict in the church can be an opportunity to submit for the sake of unity.

1 Corinthians 1:10 (NKJV) - "Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."

There's a story about a man who voted against the church buying a grand piano. He was the only person that didn't think it was wise for the church to spend so much money, fifty, sixty thousand dollars on one thing, when it could have been spent on missions or something else. In reality, he might have been right. The whole church may have been wrong in prioritizing a piano that they didn't need per se, when that money could have been spent on something else. Who knows what was right or wrong in the scenario.

But let's pretend that this man, this older man, had wiser judgment on the issue, and he was giving caution on why they shouldn't have bought this piano. But nevertheless, he was the lone vote that voted against this. And after the vote, he stood up and the rest of the people thought he was upset or mad, but he wasn't. He stood up and pulled out of his pocket $100 and he said, Though I didn't think it was a wise decision to buy this panel, I know the unity of the brethren is more important than buying or not buying a piano and I want to be the first to give to this purchase. And I think that communicates a wonderful spirit of submission that God loves unity not above truth but he loves unity on above secondary issues of conscience and wisdom issues.

And so I think when there's conflict in the church, it gives us an opportunity to submit to sometimes even inferior wisdom, because knowing that unity of the Spirit and the bond of peace is more valuable to God than us standing firm on our personal convictions on wisdom issues.