This morning we begin worship with:
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
On the sports talk shows the headlines blare when the quarterback is hurt, but not a word when a water-boy calls in sick.
But it is not so in the church, for it is described as one body. A body is connected. Each part is important.
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, 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. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Whether you are weak or strong, private or public, in management or part of the rank-and-file, you are essential to the whole.
Don't believe that? Recall please your latest toothache, stubbed toe, or splinter. That is how the rest of the body feels when you are sidelined.
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