Body Members

1 Corinthians 12:12-14   
12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.

So also is Christ.  As His body we are one under and in Him.  When the church is seen, Christ is seen there.  All of us who are justified, redeemed, and reconciled to God in His Son are now joined to each other under Christ’s authority and united by faith to Him.  It does not matter if we were born as a Jew or any other nationality, nor if we we of low state in bondage or free and mighty enough to rule a country; His Spirit bonds us to Him as one people and so to each other.  The second birth is what gives us eternal identity and freedom that a nation or human association cannot.  Therefore, each of us is part of the whole which is Christ as the church in a sense (“so also is Christ”).