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The Body of Christ

A lot has been going on with me lately.  A lot with Christian people that I know.  It sucks!  It is like – why can’t Christians all just get along.  Why does God put one thing on one person’s heart and something else on someone else’s heart and they don’t mesh.  Aren’t we supposed to be a body?  Well, why is it that this body fights?  I think right now the body of Christ has quite a few health problems.  This is not just with the group of Christians that I know either. 

The body of Christ is “one unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body.  So it is with Christ.  For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body – whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free – and we were all given the one ‘Spirit to drink.’” 1 Corinthians 12: 12-13. 

I think that the body of Christ is getting cancer.  There is a disease spreading through it that says that a lot of what the world looks to as normal, is right.  There are parts of the body that are fighting back and saying no!  There are parts of the body that want to go out and help others and there are other parts of the body fighting that.  It is scary sometimes to see what is happening.  Like I said, it isn’t just locally either.  The body of the church is to be one unit.  We have to strive to work together. 

So although sometimes we fight, we have to try to come together again and become one body again.  Unfortunately, a lot of times, there are quite a few members of this body that are lost in the cross fire.  They see what is going on, get disgusted and leave or die off.  If the body of Christ was to go in for a medical exam, what do you think the results would be? 

Your feet are broken, you are not going and spreading the good news.

Your arms have a muscle deficiency, you cannot seem to embrace new ideas or new members of the body of Christ.

Your brain needs a transplant, the old ways aren’t always the right ways, look at the Bible for that!

Your stomach is eating itself since you have not been consuming the word of God, instead just gossip.

That headache that you have, it is because there are parts of your brain, mis-firing. 

Your ears have infections since you have let so much nastiness enter them.

The doctor might tell us that with some intensive treatment, antibiotic (the Bible) and physical therapy, we will be able to be feeling good again. 

He might explain it like this:  “Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.  If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.  And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,; it would not for  that reason cease to be part of the body.  If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?  But in fact God has arranged the parts of the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.  If they were all one part, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, but one body.  The eye cannot say to the  hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’ On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor.  And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment.  But God had combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.  If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoice with it.  Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it.”  1 Corinthians 12: 14-26.

Oh wait – the great physician and the great healer, already HAS described it that way.  The antibiotic to use is the bible.  So pray, and pray hard because there is a lot going on in this body of Christ.  This body spreads all over the country, the world, etc.. we need to be beautiful, and have people look at us and say – I want to be part of that body too!  Our body will bring them in and embrace them, not turn them aside because they don’t follow rules or regulations.  PRAY people.  Please!  The song, “How Beautiful is The Body of Christ” is one of my favorites.  Lets strive to be that beautiful again!

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