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Wednesday, July 24, 2024
This past week our Sabbath School class was studying in 1 Corinthians, specifically these verses:
12:12-14 “For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many.”
What I love about these words is the reminder that our church is, and should be, very diverse. Diversity includes what our backgrounds are, where we are from, what we look like, how we share our cultures. However we are also the same. We are ONE, as we are all part of the body of Christ. We have one common goal – the reflection of God’s love to others.
If you know your flowers, you already know these images are of dahlias. Clearly you see the differences in individual blooms, but they are in the same family. When I see the differences in the color, the petal pattern, the details, it reminds me of the differences and diversity in each one of us, but just like our family of God – we are one and the same.