Missing Pieces

This video is a phenomenal picture of the body of Christ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLVRQCjh8c

Just as the woman without an arm had to have the balancing of the man without a leg, he also needed her. The story circulated with this video spoke of how she taught him to dance after he lost his leg.

In the body of Christ, we sometimes feel that we need to have it "all together." We develop an artificial division between the Christian "winners" and the rest of us. We forget that we are all missing a piece, that we are all broken vessels. We forget that we both need something that someone else offers, and we have something that another person needs. That's what's so fun about seeing God bring together a small group, a missions team, a church, an inter-denominational prayer group!

Be blessed today by this reminder from the Apostle Paul that we all need each other! The church in the West needs the perspective that only you who are wholly devoted to God's kingdom coming in the whole earth can bring - and you need our support and encouragement. Let's pray we continue to learn from each other.

1 Cor. 12:12-27 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. 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.

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.