How is Christ connected to believers?

Les explains that it is not scripturally correct to refer to Christ as the church's King. He is King of kings, Lord of lords, and God of creation, but to the church He is the head of the body. If He were King, believers would be subjects, yet Paul never gives the illusion that believers are subjects who must kowtow to His every command. Instead, believers are part of Him, just as a wife is part of her husband. As the physical head is connected to the physical body, and as a husband is connected to his wife, so Christ is connected to believers as members of the body of Christ.