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"Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many."
- 1 Corinthians 12:12-14
One of the images Paul uses to describe the Church is the Body of Christ. The passage above tells us that the Body (read: the Church) has many parts, but they are all linked together. Thus here and in other places, Paul teaches us that the Church is called to live as a body, a body where each part serves a purpose connected to the greater good. He goes so far as saying that the gifts each person in the Body is given are granted in order to bless others in the Church.
A simple conclusion: when a person decides to stay home and not gather with the Church on a Sunday morning for corporate worship, he or she may be the key element needed in the Body that day. Just as opening a door requires many parts of the body but mainly it requires the hand, what if on that one day I chose not to gather with the Church I was needed, my gifts were needed, what I brought to the table was needed? Suddenly, the Church is not just about me "getting something" out of Sunday morning, but instead it is about playing my part in the grand symphony that God is conducting.
- tC
One of the images Paul uses to describe the Church is the Body of Christ. The passage above tells us that the Body (read: the Church) has many parts, but they are all linked together. Thus here and in other places, Paul teaches us that the Church is called to live as a body, a body where each part serves a purpose connected to the greater good. He goes so far as saying that the gifts each person in the Body is given are granted in order to bless others in the Church.
A simple conclusion: when a person decides to stay home and not gather with the Church on a Sunday morning for corporate worship, he or she may be the key element needed in the Body that day. Just as opening a door requires many parts of the body but mainly it requires the hand, what if on that one day I chose not to gather with the Church I was needed, my gifts were needed, what I brought to the table was needed? Suddenly, the Church is not just about me "getting something" out of Sunday morning, but instead it is about playing my part in the grand symphony that God is conducting.
- tC
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