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The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
When people ask me what makes me
optimistic about life....
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
My Answer?The Church!
“What? You must be kidding!”
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Missiological
Many feel that the Church
doesn’t work anymore!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Personal
The Church is hypocritical & judgmental!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Historical
Across the years the
Church has become
corrupted!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
But every place it has been
‘snuffed out’, it is thriving!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
The Church is
‘the Place You Most Belong!’
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
1 Corinthians 12:12-20
12 For as the body is one and has
many members, but all the
members…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…of that one body, being many, are
one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by
one Spirit we were all baptized into
one body…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…whether Jews or Greeks, whether
slaves or free—and have all been made
to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact
the body…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…is not one member but many.
15 If the foot should say,
“Because I am not a hand, I am not of
the body,” is it therefore not…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…of the body? 16 And if the ear should say,
“Because I am not an eye, I am not of
the body,” is it therefore not of the
body?
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
17 If the whole body were an eye,
where would be the hearing? If the
whole were hearing, where would be the
smelling?
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
18 But now God has set the
members, each one of them, in the body just as He
pleased. 19 And if they were all one
member…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there
are many members, yet one
body.”
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
You, a Part of the Whole
Unity out of Diversity
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Designed to Reflect God’s Redemptive
Power!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Colossians 1:16 NCV
“Through his power all things were
made—things in heaven and on earth, things
seen…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…and unseen, all powers, authorities,
lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for
Christ.”
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Differing Roles
More than the Sum of Our Parts
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Called to Complete
God’s Purposes in the World!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
“The whole is greater than the
sum of its parts.” (Aristotle)
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Romans 12:1-2, 4-5
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that you present your
bodies…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
And do not be conformed to this
world…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that you may prove what is that
good and acceptable and
perfect will of God.
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do
not have the same function, so we, being many…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…are one body in Christ, and individually
members of one another.”
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Purposes of God
Pleasing theHeart of God
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Actively Bringing
Glory to God!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Isaiah 43:7
“Everyone who is called by My name,
whom I have created for My
glory…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…I have formed him, yes, I have
made him.”
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
This is Your Moment!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
For the work, mission, &
purpose of the Church…
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
…requires every ONE of
God’s redeemed,
transformed & saved people!
The Place You Most Belong!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
Itrequires
YOU!
The Place You Most Belong!I Corinthians 12
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