The Church as the Tale of Christ - Part 3

In reference to this unfolding story of God through Christ's body on this earth, we see that the reason God has a purpose of filling everyone with Himself is that He may show the mystery of who He is through a created people.

He not only wants the world to see this mystery that is hidden in Christ within us, but He also wants to unfold it to the invisible rulers and authorities as well: both good and evil.

As the people of God, we then are accountable to be still and know God, in order that we can tap into the already written story and then progressively grow in it, and then reveal it to the watching visible and invisible worlds.

This is of course done both individually and corporately, as we talked about recently. Yet, the individual participation is for the purpose of contributing to the corporate church so we can partake of that part of the story that's in one another. That's the reason we meet and get together, to show forth Christ in an ongoing and growing way.

Each of us are to contribute in order that the corporate body can increasingly show forth who God is in Christ in an ever-enlarging way.

That's why while we are one, we are at the same time a part of the whole. We need one another in order to fully reveal who Christ is, and for God to attain His purpose in us of being all in all.

Paul wrote that the church was a letter that existed to be read by all men. That's another way of saying we are a story, narrative or tale that God is writing by His very life within our spirits. Together we are to show forth the increase of that story from generation to generation until all of who He is is revealed in us.

Part One; Part Two; Part 3
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