55. What do you understand by the "communion of saints"?

First, that believers, one and all, as members of the Lord Jesus Christ, are partakers with Him in all His treasures and gifts l) second that each one must feel himself bound to use his gifts readily and cheerfully for the advantage and welfare of other members.2)

1) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. I John 1:3.

2) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. I Cor. 12:12,13.

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. I Cor. 12:21.

(Charity) Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. I Cor. 13:5,6.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Phil. 2:4-6.

* For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Heb. 3:14.

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