Doug E. Pudge

Thinking Globally On A Friday

You know, I was thinking. We have been studying the book of 1 Corinthians in our Sunday night group. When we went through chapter 12 (the part that talks about the body of Christ) I believe God gave me a new way of looking at this verse. You see every person that I have ever heard talk about this section of scripture has always applied it to a local congregation. That is absolutely how Paul intended for the church in Corinth to view it also. But I think there is a global application here. Can we apply this scripture across the board? Can we say that if Jesus is the head of the body and we are the various body parts that each and every church that professes Jesus as Lord and Savior has a different function in that body. Maybe the Methodists are a hand, the Presbyterians would be an eye, the churches of Christ an eye, the Pentecostals an arm, the Catholics a leg, the independent community churches a foot and so on? I think we serve a God who likes the big picture as much as He likes the microscopic. Jesus is the head of this absolutely enormous body.
Now, imagine this body functioning like a body. All of us working together and laboring in the Kingdom! Imagine a world where we could refer to ever person that professes Jesus as a brother or sister in the Lord. Imagine the kind of unity that we would have and what kind of impact that we would have on the world! Is it only something that could be imagined or is it something that can be realized? Is this some kind of utopian dream I have, or is this a reality that can be made to happen? I leave you with some of Paul’s opening thoughts from 1 Corinthians 1:10: “I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought”. Be blessed beyond belief today.

posted by Doug E. Pudge @ 9:30 AM