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The "I" Team


Leave it to someone to come up with this little bit of absurdity.  A team is a collection of people knit together somehow to accomplish something.  If there is a team, then there is no "I".  Why someone who manipulate "team" is beyond me; I can only guess why.  Like it or not, we are all part of a "team"; its called the human race.  We all the same condition: We are human beings with the same condition; we are born, we grow old and die.  But, a select few of us have another "team", that is, we are gathered together with Christ unto heaven, where we will "win" forever.  The apostle Paul puts it this way...

World English Bible: Ephesians Chapter 2
[11] Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision,” (in the flesh, made by hands); [12] that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. [13] But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. [14] For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, [15] having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; [16] and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. [17] He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. [18] For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. [19] So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, [20] being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; [21] in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; [22] in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Each of us are individuals, with our own peculiar characteristics and talents.  But Christ has brought us together in HIM to be a body, a group, "a team" that has restored fellowship with God.  If there is an "I" in this team, its Christ and that's really what is important, isn't it?

God's power towards believer's by Mark Copeland

http://executableoutlines.com/text/ep1_19.htm

From the book of Ephesians... Gary