One accord

One accord is NOT compromise. It may not even be a consensus. One accord is accepting and acting in unity. Seeing the 'bigger picture' and acting on what is agreed as 'in everyone's best interests'. Obviously, the problem is in the definitions and 'leadership'. Who defines? Who steps up and is the one who rallies everyone together into a untied front? How does 'one accord' develop?

A great many questions - and some I didn't indicate, but those are the obvious ones. Who and How the determination occurs defines what one accord is and can accomplish. Where do we find this in action? Certainly not very, if ever, in the affairs of countries. In the life of the church? We do see examples of this in scripture, primarily in the first century church - there are 6 examples of this according to Bible.org

... they were in one accord - 
   Acts 1:14,   in supplication
   Acts 2:46,   in anticipation
   Acts 4:24,   in prayer
   Acts 2:43,   in their association
   Acts 15:25, in their determination 

To me, the best example begins in Acts 1:4 
  
   "... but wait for the promise of the Father, ... but you will be baptized 
    with the Holy Spirit ...
    But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, 
    and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
    Samaria, and to the end of the earth." (v 8)

Acts 2: 1-11, 14-41 is a powerful narrative of what happens when the body of Christ, the church, comes into one accord. It tells us what to expect, what we will experience, what this means in our lives, and how this empowers us to be the army of the Lord as witnesses to our world of the love that God has for His creation.

Obviously, I would argue that it is in the spiritual battles that we accomplish more from a united front. These are the days of harvest and until the church acts in one accord and enters into the life of the world around us, we won't reap the results of lives saved. Individually we are mighty warriors for the Lord, but united and in one accord as we join together we become that army which is a strong example and force for in Who we believe. Many of us in one accord accomplishes more than the lone soldier. Many of us not in one accord becomes merely a group of individuals.