March 19, 2023 - "One Body" - Lent Communion Series

Scripture Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

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Lent: Communion
Themes and Styles

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One Body: of Christ and in Christ

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A straightforward analogy
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

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1. Spiritual Unity
a. initiated in baptism
13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body

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1. Spiritual Unity
b. a radical washing
—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—

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1. Spiritual Unity
c. internal and overflowing
and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

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Refrain
14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

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2. Diversity with Unity
a. Difference doesn't exclude
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

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2. Diversity with Unity
b. Equal, though different
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?

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2. Diversity with Unity
c. planned placement
18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

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Refrain
20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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3. Interdependence
a. Functional connections
 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

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3. Interdependence
b. kingdom values
 22  those parts of the body that seem to be weaker ... less honorable ... unpresentable

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3. Interdependence
c. shared experience
  26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

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Refrain
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Please refrain from denying the refrain.