7 Ones

 ~ A Seven Linked Chain of Fellowship ~

One Inheritance (fellow heirs)  ~  “The Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel” (Ephesians 3:6).   

One Body (fellow members)  ~  “The Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel” (Ephesians 3:6).  

One Calling (fellow participants)  ~  “The Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel” (Ephesians 3:6).  

One Home (fellow citizens)  ~  “Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).

One Master (fellow workers)  ~  “I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life” (Philippians 4:3).  

One War (fellow soldiers)  ~  “Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and the one who ministered to my need” (Philippians 2:25).   

One Hope (fellow prisoners)  ~  “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me” (Romans 16:7).  “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling” (Ephesians 4:4).

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

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