Monday, 18 August 2014

5: Why should we honour others? part 2

Welcome to the fifth of eight sessions on A Culture of Honour.  These messages were brought at Jubilee Church Solihull.   You will find all the podcasts for this series here.


There’s a silence in the podcast at 34 minutes where the battery had to be changed in the microphone.

Bible Verses

Unity and Diversity in the Body

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.  For we were all baptized by 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.  Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

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.  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.  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?  But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.  If they were all one part, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

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!”

On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor.   And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,  while our presentable parts need no special treatment.  But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.  If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

The Alpha Course

Quote
A culture of honour is created as a community of people learns to discern and receive people in their God-given identities.   Danny Silk

Worship Song
Wonderfully Made



Journaling
In your journaling you may want to write your feelings and your prayers and ignore the prompts.  The prompts are to help you and you can choose those that speak to you most.  You can download these prompts as a PDF.

What circumstances or tragedies in people’s live have you avoided?
What risks have you taken to be involved in other people’s lives?
How has God used you to help other people?

You can see my creative response to this session at Newly Creative.

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