Does every believer have a specific role in the Body of Christ?
In the Body of Christ, every individual believer has a particular role. Each one has been saved for a specific place of service. This may be a hidden role, such as a prayer warrior, but every believer has a unique capability to serve God as He intended.
Les teaches that in chapter 4 Paul introduces the concept of the Body of Christ, the invisible makeup of all believers baptized into that Body. In this Body, every individual has a particular role, and every one has been saved for a particular place of service. He gives the example of a housewife who seldom gets out but can be a prayer warrior, accomplishing more for God unseen than many evangelists. Les emphasizes we are not to beg for a particular gift; it must be discerned and given as the Holy Spirit wills, not as we determine. There are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
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What does Scripture teach about the body of Christ?
Contrary to those who ridicule the body of Christ as an invisible entity, Scripture, especially Paul's writings, teaches that believers are members of the body of Christ, with Christ as head in heaven and believers as the body still on earth.