Somebody has to be in charge! Too many cooks spoil the soup, or whatever the saying is! Everybody wants to be in charge, but nobody wants to take responsibility.
God designed the church, the body of Christ, to have Jesus as its head. Jesus Christ is the boss, the head honcho, the top banana. He has the first and final word as to what we are to be and do.
Speaking of this, Paul said in Colossians 1:18 (NASB)
He (Jesus) is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
The body of Christ is made up of all believers and all are important to the body.
But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, 25so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 1 Corinthians 12:24b-25
Each member of the body of Christ has a different function.
20But now there are many members, but one body. 21And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 1 Corinthians 12:20 - 21 (NASB)
Neither can the foot say to the eye, “let me show you how to see” or the hand to the nose “pick that up for me.” God put every part of the body in place with a specific gift to function for the glory of Christ, not for self.
Notice at the end of 1 Corinthians 12:25 it says have the same “care for one another.” He does not admonish us to care for self, but for each other. For this same reason, Paul ends the chapter with “and I show you a still more excellent way.” He was referring to agape love as he explains in chapter 13 where one of the descriptive phrases says love “does not seek its own (vs. 5).”
Let all be done for the glory of Jesus Christ, everything we do and everything we say, for He alone is the Head of the Church. Jesus alone is our Savior and Lord.
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