It is only in a church that we are members of Christ and of one another, moving forward together like a well-coordinated body (1 Cor. 12:12–27). It is together that we suffer and thrive. It is together that we worship and grow and serve, according to the Word of God. That’s what your church is—ground zero for the new kind of community Christ is

It is not, however, one individual, but it is one Body; but Christ’s Body is the Church (see Colossians 1:24). Such longing indeed is not found in all who enter the Church; but if you have tasted the sweetness of the Lord, and own in Christ that for which you long, do not think that you are the only ones, but know that there are such seeds

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