A man who sold Christmas trees, noticed a couple on the hunt for one in his parking lot. They found a Scotch pine that was okay on one side but pretty bare on the other. Then they picked up another tree that was not much better. The salesmen agreed to sell them both cheap because he didn’t think anyone else would buy them. A few days later he noticed a beautiful tree in the couple’s apartment. They had pushed the two trees together where the branches were thin and tied the trunks together. The branches overlapped and formed one full and healthy-looking tree. That story is similar to something taught in Ephesians 4:11-16. It has 3 principles about how God puts imperfect people together in the church to form one full and healthy group.