Experiencing the Fullness of Christ
How can we experience Christ? I've heard a lot of ideas about that over the years. But it wasn't until I slowed down and listened carefully to Paul's prayer for the Ephesian church that I saw something I'd never seen before. Paul prayed, among other things, that they would know: "...what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints..." Eph. 1.18 Where are the riches of Christ? Where is His glorious inheritance? "in the saints" That's me and you. We Christians are his riches. We, the church, are his inheritance, his treasure. In the next sentence Paul tells us that the church is Christ's b ody, "the fullness of him who fills all in all." Eph.1.23 Where do we go to experience the fullness of Christ? All of Christ's riches, all of his energy and resurrection power are invested in one place, his body, the congregation of his people. There is nowhere else to go to live in his fullness but to...