COMS220

Ok, so my friends, Josie, Whitney, Addison, and I went to a new church last sunday. The church is called Tree of Life, you may know of it, it is off Timberlake road. After the service, Josie and I were driving to lunch together and we started chatting about the pastor and the service and things we liked and enjoyed and things that we might not have totally agreed on. Somehow the topic of children going to church came up and when we have children if we would drag them to church with us kicking and screaming or let them decide for themselves when they wanted to accept Jesus and come to church on their own.
I decided that I didn't want to force my kids to come to church, but I would strongly encourage it. Then Josie said,
'I would not make them go to church either but I would ask them why they didn't want to go and if something happened that caused them to not like church."
She then said something else that caught my attention. She mentioned that church was supposed to be filled and make up the body of Christ. We then started discussing how everyone has a different job in the body. Some people hare the hands, others the feet.
People could

• teach
• serve
• cook
• fix
• paint
• sing

Although, we all have different talents and jobs in the church some of us have similar jobs. For example, I have only ever been to churches who have one pastor that preaches on Sundays. I feel like there are probably at least a few other pastors in the congregation that would have a huge impact on the people if they were to have a go at preaching on one Sunday. I feel like sometimes we delegate one person for a job that could be fulfilled by a few. There are other people and teachers that have a word from God that someone needs to hear, and yes, maybe they are preaching at Sunday school or in small groups, but why is there only one 'head' pastor. We are all equally the body of Christ.
We all have different functions but we are all still needed equally to make up the whole body. We need to to be the body all together because if one little part gets off track then we all do because we are all one body. We need to look after each other and love each other. We need to help each other grow so our body can grow and be healthy. We need to go out and make more disciples so our body will grow larger and larger everyday.