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Vine Branch Day 124
One of the keys to a healthy church is ensuring that each household member is connected to Christ himself. The church and its dependent household bodies are linked to Christ and draw their life from him. The New Testament emphasizes this bond between Christ and the members of his Body of which he is the Head. The household is the bride of Christ and Christ is the bridegroom. She is the building and Jesus is the foundation. She is the branch in the vine and Jesus is the stem.
My late wife and I together with our little daughter were on holiday in Folkestone. As we walked along the sea wall one evening, we came across a vine growing inside a greenhouse. A dense mat of branches and leaves covered the roof. We searched diligently to eventually find the stem in a corner bringing nourishment from the ground. In the Household Body of Christ, Jesus also provides nourishment for the various parts. Jesus said, "I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit."1 Christians, like branches, are nurtured by the Jesus trunk. A bough failing to produce fruit is pruned off to stimulate new growth and prevent contamination of the rest of the vine.
1John 15.5.
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