Church Year: Epiphany 3:
Date: January 26, 2025
Theme: Existing As One Body In Christ
– 1 Corinthians 12:12-21, 26-27
– Pastor: John Hein
Bulletin: Bulletin
Liturgy: Liturgy: WS p. 1
Hymns:
WS 739 : Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling
TLH 473 : The Church's One Foundation
WS 767 : Church of God, Elect and Glorious
TLH 44 : Ye Lands, to the Lord Make a Jubilant Noise
Scripture Readings:
Isaiah 61:1-6 Luke 4:14-21Theme: Existing As One Body In Christ
1 Corinthians 12:12–21 (Listen)
One Body with Many Members
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
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1 Corinthians 12:26–27 (Listen)
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
(ESV)