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THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
THURSDAY, MAY 7
1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Romans 12:3-11
 
“One body in Christ,
and every one members
one of another.”
 
THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
 
Paul twice says that we, as members of the body of Christ, are “members one of another” (Rom 12:5; Eph 4:25). The most extended passage of Scripture dealing with the mutual interdependence of the members of the body of Christ is 1 Corinthians 12:12 to 27.
 
For the Church to function and grow harmoniously, every member of the Church must recognise that he needs other church members to grow in the Lord. No member in the body of Christ is dispensable or is more important than the other. Every believer has a special gift and a special function within the body of Christ. Paul thus argued, “If the foot shall say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular” (1 Cor 12:15-27).
 
THOUGHT: It takes two hands to clap.
PRAYER: Lord, help me be a team player in the body of Christ.

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