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So I have been thinking more and more about the community of believers, the church. It is more than an organization, more than a group, more than a community, it is the Bride of Christ (and the body of Christ) that is only fully lived out in community.

So many people get caught up looking for God’s direction for them, I see it all the time, “what does God want for me?” They pray, they read the Bible, but they never talk to the rest of the Body of Christ about it.

The scripture is clear, we know it part and we prophecy in part (1 Cor 13:9). By myself I see a piece of what God has for me. I may see a big piece, but any way you slice it, I’m convinced it is only a piece. I believe that the brothers and sisters that make up the body of Christ hold the other pieces, and it is only through them that I can dream of coming into the fullness of who God wants me to be.

This is an unpopular idea in modern American Christianity because Americans are notoriously, unashamedly, and sinfully (confession on my part) independent.

The fact is, if we are seeking after the fullness of God, we must not only find him on our own during a “quite time”, we must also find him in the creation that bears His image and is being conformed into His likeness, namely the Church.

I need my church so that I can come into the fullness of who I am in Christ, I love that, I’m proud of that, I’m humbled by that.