Believers should respond by willingly serving in the place where God has put them, caring for every other member equally, and remaining submitted to Christ as the Head.
Paul compares the body of Christ to a human body: every member is needed and has a function. Les teaches that no believer is too small or overlooked—each one is placed by God and saved for a particular service. Just as the human body responds to its head, every believer is connected to Christ the Head, and when one member suffers, the whole body suffers.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 — Paul identifies the body of Christ and explains that all believers are baptized into that one body by one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:25-26 — Paul commands unity and shared care among members, saying that if one suffers, all suffer with it.
Paul uses the human body as a picture of the body of Christ. In 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, he says that the body is one yet has many members, and that by one Spirit all believers have been baptized into that one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, bond or free. In verses 14, 25, and 26, he shows that the body is not one member but many; there is to be no schism in the body; the members should have the same care one for another; and when one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
Les Feldick applies Paul's analogy directly to believers. He emphasizes that every believer, regardless of station in life, is baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ, an invisible act received by faith. Just as a human body has many members, every believer has been saved for a particular place of service, even if that service is as unseen as a little pinky or a little toe. Les teaches that no member should be considered unnecessary, and the weaker or less visible members are to be enhanced and brought to the fore. There is to be no schism, and every believer deserves the same care, love, and compassion. Christ is the Head of the body, and every believer is connected to Him and should respond to Him.
Every believer is saved for a particular place of service. Les says the body of Christ is made up of individual members, some with roles as visible as an eye and some as hidden as a little toe or pinky. Regardless of where God places a believer in the body, each one has a function that matters. The proper response is to be willing and available to serve in that place.
The Bible says there is to be no schism or division in the body, and the members should have the same care one for another. Les stresses that the weakest believer—the one the world might think the church cannot use—is the very one God wants the body to enhance and bring to the fore. Every believer in God's eyes deserves the same amount of love and compassion as the next one.
Les compares the body of Christ to the human body in which the mind controls and responds to every part. He says every believer is connected to the Head, which is Christ. The natural response for the body is to respond to the Head, allowing Christ to be in control of every facet of the body.
Using the human body analogy, Les says that when you hit your thumb with a hammer, the whole body feels the pain. In the same way, if a believer is hurt, the whole body hurts with that believer. This is because every believer is an individual known by God, and the body is to share the same care one for another.
Every Believer Baptized into One Body
Les explains that all believers—Jew or Gentile, bond or free—are placed into the body of Christ by an invisible act of God; the body has many members, not just one.
Christ Is the Head of the Body
Les compares the body of Christ to the human body where the mind controls and responds to every part; every believer is connected to Christ the Head and should respond to Him.
Imperfect Members Still Belong
Les uses his own imperfect pinky to show that even believers who are not all they should be are still in the body; station in life makes no difference.
Every Believer Has a Particular Role
Every believer is saved for a particular place of service, even a housewife or mother who is seldom seen publicly.
Suffering Is Shared by the Whole Body
When one believer is hurt, the whole body hurts; God knows every believer individually, so no one is just a number.
All Believers Are Baptized into the Body
Les stresses that all believers, not just the most spiritual, are baptized by one Spirit into the one body of Christ.
Every Role Has a Function
No matter whether a believer's role is like a little pinky or a visible part, God has placed each one in the body and given them a function.
Same Care, No Division
God wants the weak and overlooked believers enhanced, with no schism in the body; every member deserves the same love, and when one suffers, all suffer.
1 Corinthians 12:12: 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.
Paul sets up the analogy that the body of Christ, like a human body, is one body with many members.
1 Corinthians 12:13: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Shows that every believer is placed into the one body by the Spirit, regardless of background or status.
1 Corinthians 12:14: For the body is not one member, but many.
Emphasizes that the body of Christ is not one member but many, so each member matters.
1 Corinthians 12:25: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
Reveals God's purpose for the body: no division and equal care among members.
1 Corinthians 12:26: And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Pictures the shared suffering and rejoicing of the members of the body.
Yes. Les explains that every believer is placed in the body by the Holy Spirit and given a function, whether visible like an eye or hidden like a little toe. Every member is an individual in God's sight and is saved for a particular place of service.
You should enhance them and bring them to the fore, not dismiss them. The Bible says there should be no schism in the body, and every believer deserves the same care, love, and compassion.
Just as the mind controls and responds to every part of the human body, Christ is the Head of the body of Christ. Every believer is connected to Him and should respond to Him.
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