Subscribe to Pray For Quebec - Priez Pour QuebecNews FeedSubscribe to Pray For Quebec - Priez Pour QuebecComments

Browse > Home / blog / If we are the Body. A Challange to the church today

If we are the Body. A Challange to the church today

January 30, 2009 by admin0  
Filed under blog

Leave a comment

 Read and listen to the lyrics of this song. I believe it challenges the church to a higher level. Two parts of the song stood out to me.

groupe_qui_prie1.gif“CHORUS
But if we are the Body
Why aren’t His arms reaching
Why aren’t His hands healing
Why aren’t His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren’t His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way”

The chorus of the song reminded for me of the truth that the Church is the body of Christ, and that the parts of the body have specific, very important purposes. I was reminded of 1 Corinthians 12:19-25.

“If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.”

Let us remember that the church is the body of Christ, not that the Baptists are the body of Christ and the Pentecostals are another body of Christ, but that we are all the body of christ, " Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. (1 Corinthians 12:27)”

Christ is the head of one body, and that is the Body of Christ.

 It's crowded in worship today
As she slips in
Trying to fade into the faces
The girls' teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know
Farther than they knowCHORUS
But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
There is a wayA traveler is far away from home
He sheds his coat
And quietly sinks into the back row
The weight of their judgmental glances tells him that his chances
Are better out on the roadCHORUS
But if we are the Body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the Body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a wayJesus paid much too high a price
For us to pick and choose who should come
And we are the Body of ChristChorus (2x)
If we are the body
Why aren't His arms reaching
Why aren't His hands healing
Why aren't His words teaching
And if we are the body
Why aren't His feet going
Why is His love not showing them there is a wayJesus is the way

Tags:

Comments

Comments are closed.