The Missing Leg

 

 

There was an interesting story in the newspaper and on the television news several years ago  about a fella named John Wood.  It seems that a man in Maiden, NC bought a BBQ smoker at a storage facility.  When the man looked inside the smoker, he found something wrapped in paper.  Inside the paper, the man discovered the leg of John Wood.  Reports say that Mr. Wood lost his leg in a 2004 plane crash and saved it because he wanted to be buried a full man.  

That “lost” part of the body is important to John Wood, and parts of the body are important in Christ’s Church.  In I Corinthians 12: 12-20, the apostle Paul compares the church to the human body:   12The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13For we were all baptized by^[c] one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.  14Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.    You are important in the life and ministry of your church.  Without the involvement and ministry of all persons in the body of Christ, the ministry of the church is crippled.   Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall

 

PRAYER

    O Lord and God, I thank you for the gifts and graces you have given me as a part of the body of Christ, the church.  Help me, O Lord, to never think that I do not matter to you and do not matter in the ministry of my church;  through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.