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“If we are the body...“
Vol. 1 No. 43 January 20, 2008
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was daydreaming the other day... about what life would be like if I were par-alyzed. Not only paralyzed, but unable to speak or show emotion. I was totallyimmobile and unable to communicate in my little imagined world. I wasn’t evenable to hold my son, or speak to Jen about my day. It was a frustrating scenariomy mind played out. I’m very glad I just have a good imagination and that wasn’tthe reality. I know you might be thinking I’m really weird for thinking about suchthings but... Then I realized what Christ must feel like sometimes if we are His body. Heknows that we are fully capable of doing great things in His name, but no matterhow much preaching and encouragement hits our ears, we remain immobile,apathetic and silent.remembered what it was like after my minor surgery, it hurt to move andit frustrated me all the more, because even everyday tasks became difficult fora temporary amount of time. I was relieved when I could finally lift things over20lbs again, and hadn’t realized before what that restricted me from doing.f only some of the church body is moving and functioning... it’s still a churchthat doesn’t live up to its full potential. How is Christ to be brought to the worldif the body of Christ doesn’t wake up and function in the world.know you’ve probably heard the song by Casting Crowns, “If we are theBody” and it’s a good song, but what inspired me this time to write was DeitrichBonhoeffer’s book “
The Cost of Discipleship
” and a chapter called “The VisibleCommunity”. Christ’s body is the church (psst... that’s us! Not the building!), and if we are not a visible light in our own community, than how will Christ be knownin our world.art of our current problem is that we have compartmentalized church (Justimagine putting Christ in a tupperware container, only bringing him out to playon Sundays and Wednesday night if he “behaves” the rest of the week). We al-low God to only occupy a small part of our lives. He’s not welcome at our jobs,schools, or everyday activities. “That’s too much. I don’t want to seem like a fa-natic.”, we might declare to God. But God has given us His very own Son, so thatwe might be hiers of His Kingdom. How much do we show that we are gratefulto him if we only give him our Sundays and Wednesdays?
“For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.”
-Romans 11:36-12:1
-Aaron
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