Dancing in the Kingdom- Table of Contents
Dancing In the Kingdom – Part 3 – Dancing in the Kingdom– Chapter 17 – Finding our place
Community of persons, not groups
[Bible references: 1 Corinthians 12]
It would be more typical to frame our relationships in a widening circle that centers on God and ourselves, then widens to family and then widens to the church. That would certainly fit the way we normally prioritize things. This is in the context of a culture with an increasingly self-centric consumer mentality that focuses on addressing our individual needs over the needs of the community. A typical response of organizations, including the church, is to identify which groups people are in and the provide a product or service to meet that needs of those groups such as children, youth, adults, married, single, etc.
While it is proper to identify common needs of various groups, care needs to be taken that we serve as individuals serving other individuals, not as one subcommunity in the church serving another subcommunity within the church. Both those who serve and those who are served are image-bearers who are individually valuable to the God who values each of us as individuals.
Observe
Read 1 Corinthians 12. What is it that we can do as an entire Body of Christ that we cannot do well as one part of the Body by itself?
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