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Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 \\ /But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be./ 1 Corinthians 12:18 (NIV)
!! I. We are the Body of Christ
A.
God is better than Picasso!
1.
All the parts are where they should be!
a.
At birth, the 1st thing we check.
b.
If parts of Christ’s body are missing, or out of place, it’s not God’s fault!
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God makes beautiful things!
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God arranged us to be beautiful!
b.
He made us to be glorious
c.
He made us to glorify Him.
B.
The Church is an Organism
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An organism not just an /organization/
a.
It’s good to have~/be an organization!
b.
But a body is an organism
c.
It doesn’t take a committee to scratch my nose!
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A collection of interconnected systems
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Of mutually dependant systems~/parts
b.
Not everything is skeletal, or circulatory, or lymphatic, or digestive, etc.
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All the parts need all the parts!
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Living, growing, maturing, purposeful
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An organism is living.
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We grow together, learn, mature.
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We have a purpose–we’re not just here taking up space.
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We are His Hands and Feet
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We are Christ’s Body!
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A new kind of incarnation
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As scandalous as the first!
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We’re all a part of Christ!
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We are intimately connected with Him
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Christ is in the world thru His Church
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The way God most clearly works is through His Church (scary huh?)
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It is not my job to do it all, but it is our job to do it all.
!! II.
The Spirit makes us One Body
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We are Baptized into the body
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God pours out His Spirit & we get soaked!
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Not about the sacrament of baptism
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Baptize = to be immersed, sunk, drown
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God pours out His Spirit since Pentecost
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Not dunked into water but into His body!
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Usually baptized into Christ or His name
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A strange~/mixed metaphor–we become an integral part of His Body.
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We all Drink the same Spirit
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The Spirit enters us too! \\ /On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified./
John 7:37-39 (NIV)
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This is about the Spirit, inside & out!
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We swim in the Spirit
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The Spirit swims in us
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Our unity Overwhelms our diversity
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Be baptized ≅ be overwhelmed
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Overwhelm=be flooded out
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The USS Disunity has sunk.
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We are immersed in~/drink from one Spirit!
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There comes a time when differences don’t make much difference.
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Sinking into the Spirit, Who sinks into us, the differences are petty.
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Any disunity is imported from the outside
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We /are/ one.
Division takes effort!
!! III.
Remember our Membership!
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