There is one Spirit, but a variety of gifts.There is one Lord, but a variety of ways that people serve.There is one God and Father, but a variety of ways that people work for the kingdom.
God gives different gifts to different people. Some, a passion for peace; Others, a passion for political freedom. Some, a passion for life and its sacredness, Others, a passion for forgiveness and mercy. Some, a passion for a more closed interpretation of the Bible, Others, a passion for a more open interpretation of the Bible. Some, a passion for evangelism, Others, a passion for justice.
All of these people are working for the common good. Each of them is inspired by the one and same Spirit, the Spirit who gives to each person their unique and different perspective. For
just as the human body is a unified whole, composed of millions of different parts, so is Christ and his body.
just as the human body is a unified whole, composed of millions of different parts, so is Christ and his body.
The human body is miraculously complex, with 60 million cells, with 36 million heart beats every year, with 300 billion red cells produced every day, With 60,000 miles of blood vessels in each body.
Just as the human mind cannot begin to fathom the complexity of its own body, so it is with us, with the body of Christ. Our minds cannot comprehend the complexity of the body of Christ.
Christ is a living body, composed of billions of parts, miraculously complex, with billions of members, located in millions of different settings, with thousands of different languages, with thousands of unique cultures and billions of expressions of the true faith…throughout all the centuries of recorded time.
The human mind cannot begin to fathom the complexity of the body of Christ, anymore than the human mind can imagine the 60,000 miles of blood vessels in one’s own physical body.
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