Synergy

Have you ever heard that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts? This is synergy, when things working in combination are greater than the sum of their individual contributions. I use the illustration of a body in a scaled up version to describe my church. Yet the same concept works at an individual level. Have you found that prayer improves your Bible study? Yet doesn’t Bible study also improve prayer? Just as my body is not to be fragmented, neither is yours, nor your life. If my promise that all things work together for good for those who love me and are called according to my purpose helps you to put the painful events of your life into perspective, then how much more should all the works of righteousness work together to give you an integrated complete abundant life in me?