“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ…For the body does not consist of one member but of many….But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts yet one body.”
(parts of 1 Corinthians 12)
Last night at church, instead of worship practice we just had a time of prayer for the church, and for the worship team, and the many different ministries of the church. We had our own individual time of prayer, and it was great. While I was praying, I was just reminded that we are the body. The church is the body of Christ. and this passage from 1 corinthians popped in my head, cuz in the body, there are so many different parts…in the church there are or can be so many different ministries. Yet all to often, you see them operating as something separate from the church, or on their own. But they really should operate, as the body of Christ, all minstries shoudl operate as if they need each other…they need all the other ministries to work together to make up the church, and the body. They are all just as important as another, and just as much needed.
I just wish and hope and pray that the church starts living that way, and that we see the importance of the body working together as ONE.
“But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
There is a way “
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