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She is not ` our church , ' but ` God 's building , ' owned by God alone . All her members are the sons of God and bear his holy image . ` God hath set the members every one of them in the body , as it hath pleased him ' -LRB- 1 Cor . 12:18 -RRB- , for ` ye are the body of Christ , and members in particular . ' '' For a moment Edwin paused to meditate upon what he had read ; then he continued : `` It is God himself that assigns each member his place in the church , or the body of Christ , and makes known to him what his line of spiritual work is to be -- ` Now ye are the body of Christ , and members in particular . And God hath set some in the church , first apostles , secondarily prophets , thirdly teachers , after that miracles , then gifts of healing , ' etc. -LRB- 1 Cor . 12:27,28 -RRB- .