When we align with God’s will, we can bloom where we’re planted. Communion is our active participation in Jesus. As we are “in Him” through faith, and as He is “in us” through the Holy Spirit, so we are bound together as the Body of Christ and united to believers all over the world. But this bond is conditional – we must believe (trust) in Christ. Then we “work out” our salvation. We must get this right–we don’t work FOR our free gift of salvation–but we live it out. God’s plan is that Christians cooperate and participate with one another for the purpose of reaching the world for Christ. One of the greatest joys of the Christian life is growing through participation in the ministry of Jesus. We grow in faith by participation or we grow in boredom when we don’t make the effort.