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I Don’t Need You and You Don’t Need Me
I Don’t Need You and You Don’t Need Me
“The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” (CSB’17 1 Corinthians 12:21)
There are two ways this verse is misused:
1. “We don’t need you because we are focused on the most talented, richest, friendliest, and those who volunteer the most.”
We misuse one another by not noticing what people contribute, and only notice someone when we count the attendance. While attendance is commanded because it is essential to community, are we reducing people to a number? I like this quote, “Perfect attendance is not a spiritual gift” (Jack Wilkie, Church Reset, p.48).
2. “You don’t need me because I’m not the most talented, but am poor, introverted, and am afraid to volunteer.”
We misuse ourselves by staying away thinking we will not be missed. We have forgotten attendance is essential to being a community. However, no one is just an attendee if they are faithful to using even their “one talent”. If we are only attendees, we are guilty of thinking our “one talent” is not essential. What we people miss is that our one talent is given by God. Will God notice it not being used?
We are the body. Our body parts have many purposes. I cracked a tooth, and the root canal was thousands of dollars. Pulling it was a couple of hundred. If it had been a front tooth, I would have valued it more. It wasn’t, I didn’t, now I am missing a tooth.
But our spiritual bodies parts are not like are teeth – only the ones out front matter because they are mostly for show!
“On the contrary, those parts of the body that are weaker are indispensable.” (CSB’17 1 Corinthians 12:22)
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