Each Person in the Trinity plays a part in putting the church together. Christ creates in His crucifixion a new body called the church ([1 Cor. 12:12]). The Holy Spirit baptizes each person into the body of Christ (v. 13). The Father arranges each member in the body just as He pleases (v. 18).
--Thabiti Anyabwile, The Life of God in the Soul of the Church: The Root and Fruit of Spiritual Fellowship (Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2012), 77.
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