The Church - Gifts of Grace for Selfless Service III
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· 7 viewsThe Body of Christ, the church, the Bride of Christ all are names for and descriptors of the followers of Christ. Paul uses the imagery of the human body to illustrate the diversity of function within the church. He manages to teach about unity, purpose and calling in just a few short verses.
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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.
1cor12.13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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 in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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 in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1) We Belong to Each Other
1) We Belong to Each Other
A) We are One Body
A) We are One Body
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1cor12.
If all were a single member, where would the body be?
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
B) We Belong to Each Other Because We Share the Same Baptism
B) We Belong to Each Other Because We Share the Same Baptism
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
1cor12.24
which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
2) We Need Each Other
2) We Need Each Other
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
1cor12.
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
But earnestly desire the higher gifts.
And I will show you a still more excellent way.
3) We Impact Each Other
3) We Impact Each Other
1cor13.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1cor
1cor
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4) Love is Essential to the Body
4) Love is Essential to the Body
What Love Does Not Do
What Love Does Not Do
A) Compare
A) Compare
What Love Does Not Do
What Love Does Not Do
B) Consider others dispensable
B) Consider others dispensable
C) Treat, or speak of others dishonorably.
C) Treat, or speak of others dishonorably.
D) Treat, or speak of others by ranking them.
D) Treat, or speak of others by ranking them.
D) Treat others as if by rank.
D) Treat others as if by rank.
D) Treat, or speak of others by ranking them.
D) Treat, or speak of others by ranking them.
E) Forget the Rule of Love.
E) Forget the Rule of Love.