Created for Community: The Wisdom of Eyes and Feet

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a: Paul uses the metaphor of the human body to explain how God's gift to the Church is that people have a variety of skills, gifts and talents to bring to the ministry in Christ's name. He uses the same metaphor to explain how the church are bound together, suffering when one of us suffers and rejoicing when one of us is honored. The challenge in our culture id not that we lack compassion for community members, but that we are reluctant to be vulnerable with each other. We need each other, and we need to need each other to build community.