For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. (Romans 12:4,5 ESV)
Individuals
WARNING: STAR TREK REFERENCE
We are supposed to hate the Borg, and we do. Not only do they wield terrible weapons, but they threaten what seems to many of us to be our greatest possession: our individuality.
If the Borg defeat you, they absorb you into their ‘collective,’ and you are an individual no more.
It might seem to some that Christianity is like the Borg. We emphasize unity, community, Oneness, and following along behind One Man.
But Paul points out that we are no Borg.
Our unity in Christ does not diminish our individual gifts, abilities, and personalities. God created us individually, trains us individually, guides us individually, and loves us individually.
Christians, unlike the Borg, retain every bit of our individuality even while having Unity in Christ.
It is unique in the universe.
We are peculiar, we are both the one and the many.