Friday, August 26, 2011
Sometimes, when we were playing softball, we had to play with only 8 or 9 players. It's difficult to cover the whole field with too few players. Not one person is whole team. Each player is important. But take away a player or two and you are at a tremendous disadvantage.
If an orchestra is missing a few players it affects the sound of the music. Not one person is a full orchestra. A one man bands sound hokey at best. Each musician is important in an orchestra. But take away a player and the orchestra is incomplete.
It's the same in church. The church isn't I and me. The church is us and we. We need each other. We depend on each other. To completely serve the needs of the body of Christ, we need the full body. Each one doing his or her part. And each person is important.
Paul explains the importance of each person doing their part in 1 Corinthians 12:14-20 (The Message)
I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it. But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster. What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own.
Your part in the Body of Christ is important. But no part is important on it's own. We are better when we're together. God receives more glory and honor when we serve together. We cover more ground for Him. The music sounds better when we play together!
Pastor Tim
If an orchestra is missing a few players it affects the sound of the music. Not one person is a full orchestra. A one man bands sound hokey at best. Each musician is important in an orchestra. But take away a player and the orchestra is incomplete.
It's the same in church. The church isn't I and me. The church is us and we. We need each other. We depend on each other. To completely serve the needs of the body of Christ, we need the full body. Each one doing his or her part. And each person is important.
Paul explains the importance of each person doing their part in 1 Corinthians 12:14-20 (The Message)
I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, "I'm not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don't belong to this body," would that make it so? If Ear said, "I'm not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don't deserve a place on the head," would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it. But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn't be a body, but a monster. What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own.
Your part in the Body of Christ is important. But no part is important on it's own. We are better when we're together. God receives more glory and honor when we serve together. We cover more ground for Him. The music sounds better when we play together!
Pastor Tim
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