Who are we, again?
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 the body is not made up of one part but of many. –1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (NIV)
How many times have you heard that verse – either quoted in a sermon, referenced in an article, sung in lyric form, or posted on a Christian blog (ha ha)? This is one of those key verses in the pastor’s verse-book which gets used whenever a discussion arises over what the Church is, and what our role should/could be in it. As part of a relatively new church planting movement, we’ve developed a slightly different view of this verse from the traditional way it is taught.
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