One More Step (Pastor Hannah Huh)

Ordination Sunday

This message is a "charge" to the leaders who are getting
ordained and also the congregation about what it means to be the
body of Christ and how that is so important to the purpose and
mission of not only the individual but the entire church
community.

1 Corinthians 12:12-27
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its
many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we
were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether
Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one
Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one
part but of many.


15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I
do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop
being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say,
“Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would
not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the
whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If
the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every
one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were
all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there
are many parts, but one body.


21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And
the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On
the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are
indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less
honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are
unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while
our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put
the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked
it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body,
but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one
part is honored, every part rejoices with it.


27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is
a part of it.