My thoughts in regards to the constant bashing within the Christian community, and my appeal to the Body of Christ.
Romans 12:4-5
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
There are 43,000 different Christian denominations.
Read that again.
43,000.
The human body is a single structure but it is made up of BILLIONS of smaller structures of four major kinds: cells, tissues, organs, and systems.
The body is composed of ten major systems: Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, Cardiovascular, Lymphatic, Respiratory, Digestive, Endocrine, Urinary, and Reproductive.
To name just a few of the major body parts…
The circulatory system:
heart
lungs
brain
kidneys
The respiratory system:
nose
lungs
pharynx
bronchi
Ephesians 4:16
From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
(By the way, there are 360 joints in the human body)
The digestive system:
Mouth
Tongue
Teeth
Pharynx
Diaphragm
Stomach
Spleen
Liver
Gallbladder
Pancreas
Small intestine
The nervous system:
brain
spinal cord
meninges
dura mater
Colossians 3:14-16
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
We have over 270 bones at birth and 206 at death. I’m now really curious where those other 64 bones disappear to.
All in all, we’re made up of an almost uncountable number of parts within each part.
I’m sure the muscular system has some grand ideas on how the reproductive system should work, but it’s busy with the 700 muscles in the body that God has commanded it to be in charge of.
In order for the muscular system to function properly it has to stay attached to the bones of the body. It does what God told it to do. Stay attached, and move.
That’s its concern.
Itself.
The heart doesn’t worry about what the spinal cord is doing.
Its job is to beat.
The stomach doesn’t worry about what the dura matter is doing, its job is to digest.
Each has its own function.
When the meninges worries itself with what the bronchi are doing it will fail to protect the brain properly.
That’s its job…brain protection. Brain stuff.
Its job is not shuttling air to and from the lungs. It was never intended for that.
See, the meninges is made up of three membranes (the dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater) that line the skull and vertebral canal and enclose the brain and spinal cord.
The brain makes a really bad bronchi. It doesn’t understand the bronchi. It’s not supposed to.
THAT’S NOT ITS JOB.
If each denomination of the church worried about ITS FUNCTION we could all hold hands and run efficiently and effectively.
1 Corinthians 1:10-17
10 I appeal to you, brothers,[a] by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. 11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. 12 What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. 16 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
LEST THE CROSS BE EMPTIED OF ITS POWER!
THE BODY IS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST.
Not about the bronchi telling the lungs how to function.
2 Corinthians 2: 10-11
10 Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11 in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
Do not be unaware of Satan’s schemes, or how he tries to divide us.
Be the part of the Body that God asked you to be and do your stuff. And do it unto our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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