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.
When we become one in spirit, how we are in the physical should no longer count. There are many churches today that exist all over the world, where segregation is still practiced. If you are white there are certain churches that will nit welcome you and vice versa. I know of different instances where people have left a church for thus reason and many such like ; such as nit having the right type of dressing or coming from a particular social class! All if this nonsense should stop and for the first time let us truly represent Christ indeed by welcoming sinners to repentance. No one is perfect but we are perfected in Christ Jesus, the author and finisher if our faith. When we can be blind to our differences then can we begin to see the way God sees us.
We all drink of the same Spirit and were baptized by the same Spirit. This is the Holy Spirit, the same spirit that hit the apostles at Pentecost after Jesus went back to Heaven. We form one body and are united under one head, Christ Jesus. We should celebrate, encourage, and pioneer the development of one another’s gifts. Each gift is given so that the body of Christ may be complete. Do not covet the gifts of others; God chose your gifts especially for you. Your offering for Him is hand-picked and cherished. Experience peace with that and use what you have been given.
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