A day in the life of the church

[Mr E]

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

--So what is Christ's body up to today?

I'm running to Home Depot to grab a few things for wifey projects.

How about you?

 

[Pearl]

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

--So what is Christ's body up to today?

I'm running to Home Depot to grab a few things for wifey projects.

How about you?

Bible reading this morning and then I have been reading and creating some new threads on the forum as well as looking after hubby.

 

[Mr E]

Bible reading this morning and then I have been reading and creating some new threads on the forum as well as looking after hubby.

Thank you for getting my meaning. I love how Paul explains it in 1 Cor 12

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. If they were all one member, where would the body be? But now there are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable, whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

As I meditate on these truths I'm captured by the thought that "I" am not the brain. I am not the impulse, I'm moved by the impulse-- by the Head of the body- of which I am but a member-- like hands and feet, to serve and to go as directed by Christ- the head.

 

[Pearl]

As I meditate on these truths I'm captured by the thought that "I" am not the brain. I am not the impulse, I'm moved by the impulse-- by the Head of the body- of which I am but a member-- like hands and feet, to serve and to go as directed by Christ- the head.

Contrary to what some believe there is, as you say, only one Head. And some body has to be the big toe or the little finger or even a single hair or eyebrow. But still all part of the same body with their own purpose.