Inclusive Membership
If you've ever tried to get into Sam's Club without a card, you quickly learn the value of
membership. You just don't belong until you carry that little card and flash it proudly. As
an owner of the business card I have even greater benefits as I can get in before the doors
open for regular card carriers. In the Christian's life, the Cross becomes our card.
Because of that Cross, we have access into a place where we never could have hoped to
ever be. Not only are we members but we're related to the Boss. Sometimes I notice
that unbelievers feel a little out of their league when they are around worshipping
Christians. God gave us the ability to worship and praise Him and He accepts it from us
as we offer it back to Him. Just as you have no hope of shopping in a place where
membership is required with no card, so God requires us to have endorsed the Cross as
our means of gaining entrance.
I Corinthians 6:19, 20 "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who
is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at
a price. Therefore honor God with your body."