The Church is not a zoo ... and that is why unity, not diversity, is its communal value. As Aristotle rightly noted, ethics develop from clarity about what is our end or goal ( Nicomachean Ethics 1094a). To make diversity our end rather than unity will produce an entirely different ethic for the Church. The present essay will, positively, explore the significance of unity—and a particular unity in Christ—as the Church’s moral end by considering Paul’s words on the matter in 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12.4-7, and Ephesians 4.1-6.18. It will also address, negatively, the errors that result when diversity replaces unity as the Church’s community value—including when unity is regarded as a product of diversity seen as a value in itself (e.g., ecclesial multiculturalism). The essay functions as a plea for a Biblical understanding of the Church at a time when our Christian ecclesiology is in tatters and many are advocating an error stemming directly from the culture rather than Scr