One Body, One Mind, One Purpose

ROMANS 12:4 & 5 says: Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

ACTS 4:32 All the believers were one in heart and mind.

PHILIPPIANS 2:2 being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.

TOGETHER, YOU AND I, ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST. TOGETHER WE ARE TO BE OF ONE MIND, OF ONE PURPOSE: BY EVERYTHING WE DO TOGETHER IN 2010 WE'LL BUILD A STRONGER SENSE OF COMMUNITY, GROW IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS & IN OUR LOVE FOR HIM & FOR ONE ANOTHER .

This is our hope & prayer for the NAFCON women for 2010.

One Body, One Mind, One Purpose
1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-
work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing
you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your
attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to
it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you,
develops well-formed maturity in you.
3I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living
then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to
God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we
are and what we do for him.
4-6In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around.
The body we're talking about is Christ's body of
chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn't
amount to much, would we? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in
Christ's body, let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or
trying to be something we aren't.
- From the Message - A Paraphrase of Romans 12:1-6a

May God be glorified in everything we say & do this year!

Love,

Randee & the ICU Team