CROSSROADS CONNECTIONS (Part One)

The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. (1 Cor 12:12, NLT)

We’re supposed to be connected in this body of Christ.  As Paul describes to the church at Corinth what this connection is all about, he acknowledges that people have a different heritage, different backgrounds and different circumstances.  He says in 1 Cor 12:13 – “Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free”.  And then he tells them how such different people with differing heritage, background and circumstance can be connected, can be collected into a group of ONE.  He says, “But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit." (1 Cor 12:13, NLT)

We’re not all the same.

We have different gifts.

We don’t all have to be the same to be connected.

But we’re all supposed to be connected.

Because we’re all part of the same body.

Crossroads exists to reach in to our community and our world with the life-changing power of the One true God.  Connecting people to God and to each other.  Whatever it takes.  Crossroads is a connecting place.  It’s a place where connections are made.  Not just loose associations, but connections. There’s a big difference.

Have you ever been in a big building somewhere, like a big hi-rise building in some metropolitan area? Doesn’t it make you feel secure as you’re standing 40 floors above ground level that the steel members in that building aren’t joined together by a loose association?  They are connected.  And when they are connected, those individual members form something whole that makes them not only stronger than they are as individual members, but also far more useful.  Some members are welded together, some members are bolted together, but when each member is connected, all the members are connected.

The strength of the MEMBER is in the CONNECTIONS.