Who you are in Christ.#14

In Christ, I am a member of His body! It is very important to understand this aspect of who you are in Christ. Many folks will say I don’t need to be a part of the church to follow Jesus. I will argue that point tim the day I die because the bible says different! 

When we say we are followers of Jesus then we are also saying we are a part of the church and active participant because Christ created the church and says His body is the church and thus we are to be a part of His body. Read these verses:

1 Corinthians 12:12-27 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, 24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Ephesians 5:30-32 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Now it is clear from God’s Word, followers of Jesus are a part of His body, the church. Each of us have a purpose and to serve Him and the people with that gift He has given us. It is a picture of a beautiful marriage between each believer and Jesus. Serving one another out of love!

So are you a member of the body of Christ? I am and pray that you are too! 

Tom