Scripture for Today | 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (with Pastor Tom)

About this Episode

Opening Song: 

 Let It Be So With Your Church by Caroline Cobb Smith 

Lyrics:

As our Jesus in love touched the leper

Offered grace when they’d cast a stone

As He ate with the outcasts and sinners

With His church let it be so

 

As He preached the good news of the kingdom

As He healed them both body and soul

As He gave up His life for God’s children

With His church let it be so

 

Let it be so with Your church oh God

We are Your hands and feet

As Jesus bent low to serve in love

So with us let it be

So with us let it be

 

Let us go with our Lord to the margins

To the broken the poor and the lost

By His Spirit we’ll push back the darkness

Let His church take up her cross

 

Come help us Lord Jesus to love as You loved

Oh let it be so

We remember Your gospel how You first loved us

Oh let it be so

To seek justice love mercy and care for the weak

Oh let it be so

To live now in light of the kingdom we seek

Oh let it be so

Passage: 

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

 

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

 

14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts,[b] yet one body.

 

21 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.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 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, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

 

27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Musical Reflection: 

Jesus Loves Me by William B. Bradbury

Reflection Notes: 

This sweet and familiar song was written in 1861 for the composer’s church school and has become a favorite because of the warm reminders associated with its text: “Jesus loves me, this I know.” 

Prayer:

Almighty and everlasting God… Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ’s Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.