Yesterday I was thinking quite a bit about the Body of Christ, the Church, and how we so often don't view it correctly. I was reminded of 1 Corinthians 12:
(NIV)1 Corinthians 12:12-20
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 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.
Don't disqualify yourself because you are not like others in the Body. Each of us has a purpose and role, but all parts are necessary. We need the different ideas, the different perspectives, the different cultures, everything, because God's plan is that we are all one.
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