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Without One Another
Without each other we are incomplete. I don’t know anyone who prefers to be without all their body parts. Did that sentence strike you as strange?
Read carefully, we see Paul often connects the role of women and men, the differing gifts of all believers, to the one body of Christ which is thematically connected to creation (1 Timothy 2). Just as there is one body, one church, one cup, one bread, but many members, there is one “mankind” (1 Corinthians 10; 1Â Timothy 2).
That is, in the church there is one race (1 Peter 2:9) made up of different kinds of members of the human race. What that means is, there is nothing wrong with recognizing the differences, being thankful for the differences; and applying the body metaphor, there is a need for one another.
We are one in Christ when believers; but we are also one in creation which includes all of God’s glorious differences between men and women, nationalities, and races. I’m am thankful we are all part of one another (Acts 17:26-28). If anyone prefers to be without another part of God’s created body of man, that is strange!
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