All Christians have "Christ in us, the hope of glory", therefore each of us is invaluable, each of us truly does have something from Christ to contribute to the health and well-being of the whole body. We are a body, a family, not one man - each one members one of another. We must no longer look to our Pastor alone but to Christ himself in each other. All through the New Covenant are found these words - "let us" and "one another". We must begin treating each other as equals and stop exalting any one man over us. With this in mind, let's explore every New Testament scripture exhorting "us" to belong to "one another"

Let us "have peace with one another" MK:9:50 We are continually exhorted, throughout scripture, to dwell together in peace and perfect unity "Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity"! Psalm 133:1 For good reason does God remind us so often of the importance of brotherly love and peace - it's because it's so difficult to attain. In churches today, peace and unity are attained by having everyone submit to the Pastor, with unquestioning obedience, but God wants us to maintain unity by "endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit". We are not so much submitted to any man as we are submitted to one another in the fear of God with each of us esteeming the other better than ourselves. Of a truth, we are actually meant to submit to the Holy Spirit in one another. The Holy Spirit may recognize some in the local body as elders, some even as apostles, prophets or teachers but these are not to lord it over the local body but rather serve it for "you know that the princes of the gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority over them BUT IT SHALL NOT BE SO AMONG YOU" "Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your servant".

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