We Are The Church

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. - 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 The church. An institution? A building? Or a body of believers? When you think about the church, what is the first thing that comes to mind? For some, they may view it as a place that requires religiousness or a behavioral shift the moment they walk in the doors. For others, they may simply view it as a building or gathering place that people go to. But when Jesus Christ defines the church, He says it’s a body. What comes to mind when you think about a body? Do you think about a body of water, or the body of a letter, or a human body? Friends, the church is so much more than a place, but persons and those persons are you and I being one in Christ. We will be diving into 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and the overall theme that the apostle Paul is emphasizing is that we all make up many members that consist of one body with Christ being the head. This Sunday, my prayer is that we would gain a better understanding of the church, how we function as a church, how the Spirit moves in the church, and how we can prepare ourselves as the bride waiting for her Groom.