You Belong to Me

I was travelling down the M4 last week when I saw a man on a motor bike. Not particularly unusual until I saw what was written on his leather jacket. Accros the back of his jacket in bold letters was written, 'If you belong to Christ then you belong to me.'

As Christians our relationship with one another should not be determined by a host of secondary issues but by our relationship to Christ. If a person 'belongs to Christ' then they are part of the people of God, we have become part of the same family and are heirs together.

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:26-29

I have recently become disturbed by the prevelence of comments, tweets and various posts amongst Christians that seem to forget this truth. It doesn't mean that doctrinal issues that devide us are not important it is just that they should be dealt with in a way that first recognises that we 'belong to one another.'