As the body is the fulness

9 Verses Body Of Christ Church & Community

Verse 1

As the body is the fulness To express our life, So to Christ the Church, His Body, Doth express His life.

Verse 2

E'en as Eve is part of Adam Taken out of him, So the Church is Christ's own increase With Himself within.

Verse 3

As from out the buried kernel Many grain are formed, As the grains together blended To a loaf are formed;

Verse 4

So the Church, of many Christians, Christ doth multiply, Him expressing as one Body, God to glorify.

Verse 5

As the branches of the grapevine Are its outward spread, With it one, abiding, bearing Clusters in its stead;

Verse 6

So the Church's many members Christ's enlargement are, One with Him in life and living, Spreading Him afar.

Verse 7

Fulness, increase, duplication, His expression full, Growth and spread, continuation, Surplus plentiful,

Verse 8

Is the Church to Christ, and thereby God in Christ may be Glorified thru His redeemed ones To eternity.

Verse 9

Thus the Church and Christ together, God's great mystery, Is the mingling of the Godhead With humanity.