Romans 12:4-5 (NKJV)
4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the
members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in
Christ, and individually members of one another.
Each member hath its place and office, for the good and
benefit of the whole, and of every other member. We are not only members of
Christ, but we are members one of another. We stand in relation one to another;
we are engaged to do all the good we can one to another, and to act in conjunction
for the common benefit. [Matthew Henry Commentary]
Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent
virus of modern American life, what sociologist Robert Bellah calls “radical
individualism.” They concentrate on personal obedience to Christ as if all that
matters is “Jesus and me,” but in doing so miss the point altogether. For
Christianity is not a solitary belief system. Any genuine resurgence of
Christianity, as history demonstrates, depends on a reawakening and renewal of
that which is the essence of the faith—that is, the people of God, the new
society, the body of Christ, which is made manifest in the world—the church. [Chuck
Colson, The Body (Word, 1992), p.32]
We may be individuals, but we are members of a greater
body, The Body of Christ. While each of us have a relationship to Christ, we
also have a relationship to one another, working together for the greater good
of all.
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