The apostle offers a single answer to all three questions. The politics of the body of Christ arise from an economy of service to one another for mutual upbuilding. In the hospitality of the Holy Spirit, Christians discover that they never escape the role of recipient. The Spirit thus upends widespread assumptions about who the “we” is and who needs to be “included.” In the working of divine mercy that is the Holy Spirit, human beings receive their being in Christ from each other, in community.
