Tuesday August 21, 2012

Get together with a few believers and seek to       provide for the poor and needy some time this week.

 

Read Rom 12:5, 1 Cor 10:16, 12:27

 

Most people are aware that the church is often referred to as the body of Christ. Sometimes Christ is pictured as the whole body and we are members with Him. This image pictures unity and oneness with Christ. At other times Christ is pictured as the head, picturing the nourishment and life drawn from Him and also His Lordship over the entire body.

 

Often though we tend to focus on the body part of the image and not the Christ part. Yes, we are the body. Yes we are inter-related and Yes we all work together to get the job done. Yes we all have a role to play and yes we are all vitally important. But if we do not focus on the Christ part, then our role and our function as the body of Christ is mineralised.

 

As a body, we need to constantly remember that we are the body OF CHRIST. That defines our role, our work, our responsibility and the reason for our existence. If we forget that we are the body OF CHRIST we may as well become a local charity club or social club. Without Christ we are simply no different.

 

When Christ formed the body by His death and resurrection and when He called you into His body He called you with a purpose and mission. What is that mission? It’s to represent Christ on earth and to do the work that He was doing and to finish the mission that He began. The church, as the body of Christ, must be doing what Christ did when He was bodily among us.

 

Do you belong to the body of Christ? If ‘yes’ you have a vital role to play in that body and in the community in which Christ has placed you.

 

Prayer:

¨ Pray that your congregation would be vocal and recognisable in the local community as you together stand up for justice, voice concern over issues and represent Christ in that local community. Pray that you and your congregation would be able to represent Christ powerfully.

¨ Pray that each and every church in your area would recapture a sense of what it means to be the body OF CHRIST. Pray that more and more churches would be acting as the body of Christ and seeking to do the work He has given to us as the body.