Good morning. For just as we have many members in one body
and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many are one
body in Christ, and individually members one of another. When we say something
bad about a member of the body of Christ, it’s like saying something bad about
a part of our own body - “Johnny, my foot has been a bad boy lately”. Since we have gifts that differ
according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly:
If prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; if service, in his
serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching... Each should do his/her best in
exercising his/her gifts, not for his/her own benefit or glory, but for the
benefit of the body of Christ. One should not be envious of the gifts of others
and strive to obtain them. Father thank You that we have (and need) other
members of the body of Christ. Help us to find and exercise our gifts for the
benefit of the body of Christ.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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