Today we focus on the concept of the cross event with regard to its meaning for the body. This first century collective was to imitate the role and function of the individual Christ.
The cross is a symbol of dying to something. The collective body was entering into death with Christ. Paul is emphasizing the importance of dying when he wrote to them, "I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."
Jesus and His body modeled death to the self. The self must attach to form for identity, meaning, for its very existence. The body was following Christ into a death to form. Paul knew that attachment to him, Peter, Apollos, or even Christ, would simply birth another religious form.
True identity is being of God and God alone. We discuss in detail what this means.
