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Hey guys,
In America we are very big on the individual. I love the story about the third grade teacher who asked her class if anyone knew of something right now that wasn’t around ten years before. A little boy in the front row raised his hand and said, “Oh, yes. Me!” I’m glad for the emphasis in the country where I live on the importance and the value of the individual.
However, the truth is that our emphasis on the individual causes many of us to miss the biblical emphasis on the community of faith—a community created by the Holy Spirit, sustained by the Holy Spirit, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and lifted up in the eyes of the world by the Holy Spirit. It is important to remember that when God calls an individual, He always calls a bunch. When you became a Christian, it wasn’t a “just you and me, God” kind of thing. You became part of the church, the body of Christ. Everybody who belongs to Jesus belongs to everybody who belongs to Jesus.
The Holy Spirit, the operative power of the Trinity, was the One who started the Christian family and has been heavily involved from the beginning (Acts 2:1-4). Because that is true...
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