One bread, one body

One bread, one body.
One baptism in Jesus Christ our Lord.
One faith.

The apostle Paul used this language to help us understand the radical difference between our lives before Jesus and our lives after Jesus.  Before we were but one person.  Now each of us is a part of a greater whole, the body of Christ.  We are not we alone.  We are we together. 

This happens through the waters of baptism where God's promises shower down upon us.
This happens in the meal of bread and wine where we eat and drink the gift of Jesus, and in so doing, become Christ's body in the world.

Christ invites us into new life - and that new life looks like the life of Christ. 

This is the one faith.
A gift of grace; a gift of life.  AMEN