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What's in our DNA?

Fellowship

Go(ing) therefore...make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you (Matthew 28.19).

...baptizing them...

"Baptism...now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from your body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience..."

"...in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

Baptism Unites Us...

• With God
• With Jesus
• With the Holy Spirit
• With Believers

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and all were made to drink of one Spirit
(1 Corinthians 12.12-13).

One Body

...so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another
(Rom. 12.5).

...if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin (1 Jn. 1.7).

Belonging

Accountability

Encouragement

The Death Knell

No man is an island entire of itself.
Every man is a piece of the continent a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the less...
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne

It doesn't matter who I am, it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter who they are. If we are in Christ, we are all part of one another.