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. 13 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.
E Pluribus Unum. Out of the many, one. This motto for the United States is on every piece of money and is clenched in the beak of the eagle in the Great Seal. It symbolizes the thirteen colonies and their unity to become one nation, America. Paul used similar language for the church. There are many members with many different ethnicities and social stations, Jew and Greek, slave and free. All of them make one body the church and its Great Seal is the Holy Spirit sent by the head of the church, Jesus Christ.
Come to Cape Community Church tomorrow to be one of the many who make up the one, the church. We will walk in as believers with our own DNA, ethnicity, and status. Once we enter, however, we become a part of the one, suffering together and rejoicing together. Come gather together to see the miraculous transformation in all of us when we become thirsty to drink of the one Spirit in unity and with love for the Lord, one another, and the lost. That can only happen on the Lord’s day in the Lord’s house. Come and worship!
Dear Lord, thank you for the church where we cease to be alone and become part of the body. May we be fruitful members of the body today. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Pastor Brad Boyer
Cape Community Church