Part of a wonderful teaching I discovered on the internet.....

This teaching is something I just read over the last few days. I highly recommend it. Although some already know this information there are many striking points in this that were helpful and refreshing. I am including a quote from this study for you to read. I hope you enjoy and look into this. I'm adding this to my online blog. This article is an excerpt from the booklet Spending Time With God, w...See More

Spending Time With God - Part I

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This article is an excerpt from a booklet called Spending Time With God, written by Pastor Danny Hodges of Calvary Chapel St. Petersburg in Florida. His down-to-earth style and practical, every day applications are sure to encourage you in your Christian walk, especially in developing a devotional ..

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     With this concept of an interconnected body of Christ in mind, I'd like to share a portion of a fascinating article I read entitled "Together Forever" in Life magazine (April 1996). It was about co-joined twins—a miraculous pairing of two heads on one body with one set of arms and legs.
    
    Abigail and Brittany Hensel are co-joined twins, products of a single egg that for some unknown reason failed to divide fully into identical twins... The paradoxes of the twins' lives are metaphysical as well as medical. They raise far-reaching questions about human nature. What is individuality? How sharp are the boundaries of the self? How essential is privacy to happiness? ...Bound to each other but defiantly independent, these little girls are a living textbook on camaraderie and compromise, on dignity and flexibility, on the subtler varieties of freedom...they have volumes to teach us about love.
    The article went on to describe these two girls that are at the same time one. They have been forced to live together, and now nobody can separate them. They do not want an operation. They do not want to be separated. They each have individual personalities, tastes, likes, and dislikes. But they share one body. And they have chosen to remain as one.
    
    What a beautiful picture of the body of Christ. We are all different. We all have individual tastes, and distinct likes and dislikes. Still, God has put us together. And one of the main things He wants to show in a body that has such a multiplicity of parts and personalities is that something about us is unique. We can be wholly different, and yet we can live as one. Our love for one another is the greatest evidence of our being true disciples of Jesus Christ: "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another" (John 13:35).