The Community

The Community - by Sophia Wise

“No cure but the cross, no greater community than the church, no cause greater than the cause of Christ.” – Dudley Hall.  Last week, my dad and I wrote on the cure.  This week, I’ll be expounding on the second point in this quote:  The community of the Church.

What are we, as a group of “cured” people, supposed to look like?  What other group of people should be greater than the body of Christ?  Families may share the same bloodline, but they’ve got nothing on the Church!  We’re covered by the holy blood of Jesus and have been brought into the eternal family of God (Galatians 4:7).  Nationalities share a culture, but again, the Church’s community far exceeds this.  We belong to the culture of heaven!

As the body of Christ, we are unified beyond ethnicity, our pasts, our opinions, and more (Galatians 3:28).  We now belong to Christ (1 Corinthians 7:2, Romans 6:18), not ourselves, and that transcends our own nature as we put on His nature (Colossians 3:10).  When we truly walk in unity under His headship, great things happen.  The key here, is walking in unity.  As the Church, we are to act out of our being, doing the things He has called us to.  We are to build relationships within the Body of Christ, and be unified with one another (1 Corinthians 3:3) so that we may truly express the fact that we are the greatest community.