Healthy Church Part One

" If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it" (1 Corinthians 12:26)

"Paul clearly points out that when we as followers of Jesus become spiritually intimate with one another, it is as if our souls grow together and we begin to share spiritual nerve endings. If something happens to you, I can't help but be affected by it. We are connected soul to soul. In the same way a twisted ankle affects every other part of a human body, the hurt a church member feels touches everyone else in that community. In a healthy- functioning community of Jesus followers, people are deeply connected to one another, and when something happens, good or bad, the instinctive response is to rally around one another."

(Excerpt from Second guessing God: hanging on when you can't see his plan by Brian Jones)