THE ONE BODY OF CHRIST

I shared this story by Randy Frazee with our pastoral staff a few years back and hope it will be a blessing to you.


"I have a son who was born without a left hand. One day in Sunday school the teacher was talking with the children about the church. To illustrate her point she folded her hands together and said, “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple; open the doors and see all the people.” She asked the class to do it along with her –obviously not thinking about my son’s inability to pull this exercise off. Yet in the next moment it dawned on her that my son could not join in.

But before she could do anything about it, the little boy next to my son, a friend of his from the time they were babies, reached out his left hand and said, “Let’s do it together.”  The two boys proceeded to join their hands together to make the church and the steeple.  

This hand exercise should never be done again by an individual because the church is not a collection of individuals, but the one body of Christ."