the body

Do you see salvation as an individual event? People enter the Kingdom of God one at a time. Yet that is the beginning of the story rather than the end. For that concept can lead believers to think of themselves as independent and autonomous. But when the church was born I added to it those who were being saved. The illustration I use for my people is that of a body. No organ has an independent existence, or can live apart from the body. The same principle applies to you and I make this point emphatically in scripture. Even though you were saved as an individual you weren’t saved to live in isolation. Take your place in my body.