If you thought this blog was going to be about getting more rest, eating healthy or taking vitamins, you were thinking about the wrong body.  I’m referring to the Body of Christ, the Church.  It is important to honor your physical body and care for it well because it is the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  However, the Body I’m referring to here is the one that Jesus purchased with His own blood; the Body of Christ.  It is common these days to say, “I love Christ but not the church.”  That’s a little like saying, “I love my wife’s head but not her body.”  I wouldn’t suggest you try that.  We honor the Body by joining together on Sunday for corporate worship.  That’s easy.  We also honor the Body by being subject to it.  That’s hard.  It’s especially hard in a culture that is characterized by individualism.  On Sunday, we’ll return to our study in Acts.  In chapter 11 we’ll see Peter returning to Jerusalem with a report from Caesarea; he didn’t have to do that.  It would have been faster and far more efficient to just keep going with some gospel momentum.  He could have said, “If those curmudgeons in Jerusalem don’t like what I’m doing that’s too bad, it’s their loss.”  But Peter did not do that.  Rather, he took six guys with him to try to explain what God did in order to “bring them in and bring them along.”  Peter had no desire to be operating as a rogue agent of the cross.  He was connected to the Body of Christ and chose to honor that Body in spite of their slow buy-in to the work of God.  May the spirit of Peter continue as we endeavor to keep unity and the bond of peace.  Take time to honor the Body.