There is a binding agent, a blood transfusion that we all have the opportunity to receive if we haven’t done so already. You may call it Blood Type J. The special favor of God we rejoice in over each one of you is that this blood type, Blood Type J, Blood Type Jesus, supersedes any blood on this earth that could potentially bring us together in a way that distance can’t separate, that proximity cannot make closer, and personal knowledge cannot make any more intimate. It’s the special favor that you and I are blood-bought relatives in this family called the Church of Jesus Christ.