Chaplain’s Column – Every Gift is Needed
I was friends with a kid in my teenage years who spent at least two of his years in high school carrying a tuba in his school marching band. Not necessarily what you’d describe as a call from God, but it wasn’t a wasted experience either. He learned some facts about harmony that I’ll pass on to you.
Would you attend a concert of a hundred tubas? Probably not. But what band would be a band without a tuba? Or a flute? Or a trumpet? Or a steady drum? Get the idea? The operative word is need. They need each other. By themselves they make music. But together, they make magic.
What I saw decades ago in the marching band, I see today in the church. We need each other. Not all of us play the same instrument. Not all of us make the same sound. Some are soft, and others are loud. Some convert the lost. Others encourage the saved. And some keep the movement in step. But all are needed! “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:12).
1 Corinthians 12:12 New King James Version (NKJV). Describes Unity and Diversity in One Body. In verse 12 it says- For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
Please remember all those that are on our prayer list.
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