Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-21, 26-27
Annual Congregational Meeting
Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-21, 26-27
p. 42 in the New Testament of your pew bibles
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[a] 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.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”
26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
Thanks be to God.
Thank you to everyone who helped with this service!
Minister: Rev. Jessica McCrae
Musicians:
Dr. Deborah Henry, Miguel Brito, our choir & Pat McKee on guitar
Greeter: Arnaud Painvin
Scripture reader: Kim MacKay
Sound/Live Streaming and Slides: Charlotte Taylor & Greg McGee