Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor who was executed by the Nazi government in April of 1945. Shortly before his death he wrote in The Cost of Discipleship,

The relation of the individual believer to the new man. The new man is like a garment made to cover the individual believer. He must clothe himself with the image of God, that is, with Christ and the Church. In baptism a man puts on Christ, and that means the same as being incorporated into the body, into the one man, in whom is neither Greek nor Jew, neither bond nor free. No one can become a new man except by entering the Church, and becoming a member of the Body of Christ. It is impossible to become a new man as a solitary individual. The new man means more than the individual believer after he has been justified and sanctified. It means the Church, the Body of Christ, in fact it means Christ himself.

Through his Spirit, the crucified and risen Lord exists as the Church, as the new man.

This paragraph exposes to me a pervasive individualism in the way I have approached Scripture. What does it say about me if I take a reference to the Body of Christ, which is a group of believers, and apply it primarily to me as an individual believer?