Our teaching text, 1 Corinthians chapter 12, verses 12 through 27.

So what the Word of the Lord says, it says, 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.

For in one spirit, we were all baptized into one body.

Jews or Greeks, slaves are free, and all were made to drink of one spirit. For the body does not

consist of one member, but of many. 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. 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.

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 hearing? If the whole body were an ear,

where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them

as he chose. 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 on our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which are 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. If one member

suffers, all suffer together. If one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of

Christ and individually members of it.

This is the Word of the Lord.

You guys can take a seat.

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