The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hey, I was raised in the church.
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.
It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.