From the opening narrative of God becoming flesh, the New Testament is thick with the idea of embodiment. Keep reading, and Scripture describes the nature of God’s people: we are individual members of the church, and our unity amid diversity finds expression in metaphors of the multisensory and multifunctional nature of the human body.14 Keep reading, and Paul encourages holy kisses (awkward!).15 He also warns us not to neglect our gathering together,16 and focuses on two common church celebrations: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Both sacraments are essential to our gatherings and contain
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