Many Members, One Body

1 Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

The body is composed of many members. There are the bones and muscles, the glands and the organs, the nerves and the blood vessels. On one occasion, after I had spoken at a baccalaureate service in a prep school in Atlanta, Georgia, I went to a doctor’s home for dinner. He asked me if I knew which was the most important part of my body while I had been speaking. I guessed it was my tongue. “No,” he said, “the most important part of your body today was a member that no one was conscious of. It was your big toe. If you didn’t have a couple of big toes, you wouldn’t have been able to stand up there at all.” There are many members in the body of Christ. Some of them we don’t ever see. Some of the most important members in churches where I have served have been men and women whom the church knew nothing about. They weren’t the officers or the Sunday school teachers or the soloist or the preacher. They were quiet, unobtrusive folk who prayed and who exercised their gift of faith. ¹

Application

• Read Romans 12:3-5. Notice the importance of humility, if we desire unity.
• Do you treat all members of His Body equally with love? Do you tend to pout if you are not recognized as someone important in the Church?

Thought to Share

There is no unity if there is no humility. – TWEET IT

Prayer

Lord, teach me how to better appreciate every member in the Body of Christ.