Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function, in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. According to the grace given to us, we have different gifts: If prophecy, use it...

Romans 12:4-8 CSB

Paul is writing to the church, to people just like us. 

He uses this picture of a body to represent us.

Joined, interconnected, different, yet one.

And then says that we all have something to contribute to the way the body functions and works, what it does.

This interconnectedness is often in contrast to the big messages of the culture that I live in, where it's all about the individual.

Me.

Paul is reminding us that we weren't meant for "me" living, but for "us" living. Where we contribute for "us".

If Paul was writing to my church today I wonder what he would write about this interconnectedness?

I think he would still use these words:

Grace

One another

All

Gifts

Use it

The words that shout loudest to me are Grace.

And One Another.

It's in that context of Grace and One Another that the gifts and the expression of them belongs.

Where we belong.

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