What real body life is!

We have heard this term before under this name and also under the phrase of 'priesthood of all believers.'

These types of words or phrases hardly exist among institutional Christianity. Why? Words follow ways of living. The reason that you don't find one-man ministries called 'pastor' in the New Testament story is because they didn't exist. You can't talk about something that isn't a part of your everyday life. That's why a physical structure being a 'church' isn't biblical. It didn't exist in the practice of the first believers. It was made up about 250 years later. 

So how did the early church experience Christ in their lives? What is body life?
 
As with everything concerning our walk, it is all centered in Christ Himself.
 
Now we’ll look at the end result of body life so that we can examine its purpose. We are told several things concerning Christ in Eph. 4 that shows where we are going.
 
We are to grow up into Him in all things. We are to mature to the point of reaching His stature; becoming like Him - expressing the fullness of Christ. This is a corporate thing here; together we will express who Christ is and mature into being like Him.
 
When Paul starts talking about these things he begins with all of us being one. There is one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all.

He begins the talk about the body this way because there were times when the individual parts of the body started to develop certain uniqueness and diversity. This at times put a strain upon the oneness of who we are.

So Paul begins with how we are all one in spite of our diversity. This all comes from the Godhead of course where we know that He is three and yet one. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have diverse operations yet are completely one. The church in following the Lord is the same.
 
Again Paul tells us some of this in I Cor. 12 where we are shown that we are one body but have many parts. From there he reveals to us that this is what Christ is like.
 
He again goes on to tell us that we are baptized into one body by one Spirit, and drink from that one Spirit. Yet we are tremendously diverse in our oneness.
 
That’s the beauty of this diversity; we see a portion of Christ in others that we lack, and from that other brother or sister, we grow more into being like Christ.
 
The whole key to this is that we are to build one another up in love. Each of us has something that the other needs to be matured, unto the measure of the fullness of Christ.

To experience this in its fullness means that we can no longer embrace the religious system that started to be developed during the compromise with Constantine.
 
You know, that system where people sit in some type of ‘special’ building and listen to a ‘professional’ deliver speeches for the rest of our lives. We have seen the result of 1700 years of that nonsense.

Body life is nothing less than growing up into Him in all things. It can only happen with a group of believers living together and meeting together under the headship of Jesus Christ alone.
 
This is the fulfillment of the priesthood of all believers. Only as we hold to the Head and give Christ and Christ only to one another, will we grow into the end of being conformed into His image.
 
That is part of the eternal purpose that has been in the Godhead from before time.