The body of Christ

We are a body

A body in Christ

One that's full of aliments 

 Becoming riddled with strife

Pain it is causing

Like the pain of a cancer

A leg is going one way

An arm another

Nothing moves as one

We are failing at being a body

Disunity is among us

We can't work like this

Yet we continue

To work against each other

If we are the body

Why aren't we working as one?

When we'd rather cut each other up

Tearing limbs of

Ignoring others

Holding some above the rest

A body should be one

Unity should abound

Let us forgive like the head

Our precious Saviour does

Let us strive to work together

With the Spirit's help

Holding each among us

To the same value as another

Let us unite as one

Let us face the devil

Walk together

Fight the fight

Spread the good news

To bring peace

To give joy

Encourage

Strengthen

Comfort

To be Christ to all

Whether big or small

Let us be the body

The body of Christ

JH

13-4-16

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[d] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts,[e] yet one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing,helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts.

And I will show you a still more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 12:12-31