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You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts - limbs, organs, cells - but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain - his Spirit - where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves - labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free - are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.
(1 Corinthians 12:12-13 from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.) At EMBC we recognize that we are only a part of the body of Christ. That's why we value ministry partnerships. The work of the kingdom of God is much bigger than one local fellowship. Through ministry partnerships we accomplish more than simply the sum of our parts. Our fellowship cooperates in a variety of ways with the ministry partners listed below. (For more information on an individual ministry partner, click on the name.) Azle-area Ministerial Alliance
Tarrant Baptist Association
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Southern Baptist Convention
Community Caring Center
Eagle Mountain Pregnancy Help Center
Immanuel's Healthcare
Tarrant Net
Vision Ministries of America
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