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In Christ: One Body

The Bible teaches us that when we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we become part of a family often referred to as, “The Body of Christ” – The Church. As a member of this family, we each bring different gifts and talents to the service of the body.

The church is a unified whole. It is one body, yet we are distinct within that one body as individual members. In the body of Christ, there is unity but not uniformity.

“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” – Romans12: 4-5

It is an error to neglect either the individuality of each member or the unity of the body. Unity should never be promoted at the expense of individuality, and individuality should never diminish the church’s essential unity in Christ. He is our common ground; we are one body in Christ.

Thank God for your individuality and the oneness we experience in Christ!

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JUST AS A BODY, THOUGH ONE, HAS MANY PARTS, BUT ALL ITS MANY PARTS FORM ONE BODY, SO IT IS WITH CHRIST. FOR WE WERE ALL BAPTIZED BY ONE SPIRIT SO AS TO FORM ONE BODY-WHETHER JEWS OR GENTILES, SLAVE OR FREE-AND WE WERE ALL GIVEN THE ONE SPIRIT TO DRINK. EVEN SO THAT BODY IS NOT MADE UP OF ONE PART BUT OF MANY.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:12-14