Body Sculpting

For a few years I lived with my grandma in rural southeastern Colorado. Neighbors traveled on dirt roads to the community church, which met in the one room schoolhouse. Unlike today’s churches, there was never any thought given to who we wanted to attract to our service. With an average attendance of seven we welcomed anyone who walked in the door. Paul speaks to today’s church leaders who tailor their worship service to attract categories of people — families, young adults, youth and teens. Paul said, “Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body” (1 Cor 12:14-20 NIV).