Embrace Community: You Were Created to Thrive in Togetherness
Your gift was not given to you for your own benefit. It was given to you for the benefit of the whole. When you withdraw from community, you are not simply missing out on something good for yourself. You are withholding something the body of Christ needs from you.
The Mission That Was Always in Motion
The image Paul uses is that of an ambassador, one who walks into a foreign throne room on the authority of the kingdom they represent.