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Scrambled Thoughts

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. —Gal 6:2 For You are the body of Christ and individually members of it. —1Cor 12:27 For those of you who may not know me very well yet, I'm not normally big on sports metaphors. The main reason for this, is that I would have to understand a sport before I could turn it into a metaphor for life. So in most cases, you're all safe. (That isn't a baseball metaphor either.) However, things lined up very well today, and a sports metaphor was born in my heart. Over the last several weeks, Brad has taken us through the Apostle's Creed, and reminded us of the relevance of this ancient statement of Faith. This week the series concluded with "I believe in the Church." We heard how the Church consists not of a building, but of a people. We heard how we all are the body of Christ, and how, as saints (those called out and set apart) we are to be in communion with one another. We heard all this, and then we went o