We have a
lot of geese who winter in the area and last weekend about 80-100 were flying back
to the city pond in wind gusts of over 40 MPH. Over a quarter mile radius some strained
to fly in a line, others grouped in small V-shaped clusters and a few stragglers
struggled to find their place. Their temporary dysfunction made me realized
that a similar situation occurs in the church. Many of us, especially church
leadership, expect believers to fly in formation rather than function as a God-designed
body part. Paul said, “The 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. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one
body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit
to drink” (1 Cor 12:12-13 NIV).
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