Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, ‘The two shall be one flesh.’ But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. (1Corinthians 6: 15-18)

Some have argued that the spiritual and physical are in opposition. Not Paul. He teaches it is as whole persons that we enter into relationship with Christ.

Our bodies are members - the Greek is melos - of Christ. A more literal translation is that we are the limbs - hands, feet, arms and legs - of Christ.

Another very common meaning of melos is suggested by the English derivative: melody. Melos is the movement of the limbs in response to rhythm.

What rhythm will we choose? With whom shall we dance? When and how will we find our ultimate groove? Will we join together with Christ or with another?

For Paul intimacy with Christ is our only true fulfillment. Union with Christ - physical and spiritual - exceeds and includes every other possibility.