1 Corinthians 12:12-13, 27 ESV
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Pastor Doug Logan (Diddy)
This is not going to be an exegesis. The individual rules we learn from church can muddle our theology. What saves, what is appropriate... In the garden at the fall, we see bad theology, pride, and radical individualism. We want to go solo, do our own thing. Salvation means we are now in a community. It is not a solo thing. Individualism is an effect of the fall. We need to fight it intentionally to move towards community.
A picture of individualism
- Self at the center
- Everything revolves around the person
- Desire the world to nurture, exalt, and gratify self
- Personal success at the cost of all else
- Driven by satisfaction of self
- Standing up for one's right
- Getting one's due/Getting mine
Aspects of community that can be perverted
Sanctification:
+ a work of the spirit to bless the community
- a holy journey towards God
Sacraments:
+ strengthening affirmation and being brought to the corporate unit of the church
- ones continual reaffirmation
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