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care enough. Paul said, %u201cAnd I myself also am persuaded of you my brethren that you are also full of goodness, filled with knowledge, able also to admonish one another.%u201dPerhaps this lesson has touched your heart and rekindled in your mind knowledge of where you need some redirection. It may be that your own conscience has been your admonisher. Your own conscience has said to you even today, \or reconciled to God. Amazing Grace #1312, Steve Flatt, May 18, 1997Members of One Another\ as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.\All the other world religions will usually talk about an appearance or a vision of their God. But the unique position of Christianity is that the One who existed before time and who created everything became flesh and lived among us as a human being in theform of Jesus of Nazareth. That is fundamental to Christianity, and there's nothing like it anywhere else in the world's religions. That's incarnation.In one sense, the incarnation of Jesus didn't end with His ascension into heaven in Acts 1. Don't misunderstand, Jesus did ascend to heaven. He is seated at the righthand of the throne of God, and He will stay there until He comes back again to destroy the world and take home all those who are His.In another sense Jesus continues. He continues to be lived out in the members of His body, the church. \The Bible doesn't say the church is like the body of Christ. It doesn't say the church resembles the body of Christ. It clearly states \The church is not an organization, it is an organism.It is essential to understanding whothe Church is and whatit does. The church is not an organization; it is an organism. Jesus continues to live, work and move through the members of His body. \Jesus Christ, Himself.If New Testament Christianity is to be restored to its original concept, the church must be restored and the institutional concepts eliminated. We need to get rid of the images, and the