MinistryMessages
June 7, 2018
This entry is part [part not set] of 2576 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.
– 1 Corinthians 12:27
Unfortunately, Americans are raised in a culture that is very individualistic, which always tells you to “be yourself.” In this country everyone is encouraged from childhood to do whatever they like so that they can find self-fulfillment. They are told that whatever they consider to be right or whatever they want to do, they should just do. But now, after being born again, everything is different. We can no longer live by ourselves, for we have been born into the body of Christ to live the corporate “body life.”
Adapted from Born Again: Our New Life in Christ,
by Titus Chu; pages 97-98.
Tomorrow: “A New Living for the Body of Christ” (3)