The True Church of Christ

Study 8

“The Church - The Body of Christ”


Reading 1 - 1Cointhians chapter 12:12-18
(12)  For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
(13)  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
(14)  For the body is not one member, but many.
(15)  If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
(16)  And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
(17)  If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
(18)  But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.


Reading 2 - Colossians 1:18-20
(18)  And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
(19)  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
(20)  And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.