God's Army: What is the Church?

Day 3 (Today)

1 Corinthians 12:27-31 (New International Version)

²⁷Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. ²⁸And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? ³⁰Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues^"? Do all interpret? ³¹But eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And now I will show you the most excellent way.

Colossians 1:18 (New International Version)

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

Being a part of a family means different things as you grow up. At first you just have the family's name; but as you grow, you take on more responsibilities. However, you never lose that name. In these passages Paul told us a lot about who we are as a Church. First, in Colossians 1:18 he let us know who's boos: Jesus is the Head of the Church. Not a pastor or a group of men--only Jesus himself. Yet in the 1 Corinthians passage, Paul reveals that inside of that Church every on of us has a role to play, just like every part of your body has a specific function. So while Jesus functions as the authority of the Church, as we as the glue that holds it all together, you also have a unique role to fill that no on else can. Without you, the Church won't work the way Jesus wants it to. And that makes you indispensable.

How can you honor Jesus today as the Head of his Church?

Do you know what your role in the Church is? Ask Christ to show you.