Calling All Calvary - The Universal Calling

Calling All Calvary - The Universal Calling

Dave Riddle - 7/16/2023

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 12

We are the body of Christ

Spiritual Body

Unity (one) + Diversity (many)

  • 1 Corinthians 12:27

  • We are more than the sum of our parts.

    • Multiplication not addition

You are one

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

We are many

1 Corinthians 12:19-20

Functionality

Romans 12:4-8

  • One body… but we don’t all have the same function

    • We have been given different gifts

    • When we don’t live into those gifts we compromise the functionality of the body

Interconnectedness

1 Corinthians 12:15-16

  • We are connected and interlocked together.

  • We need each other.

  • We need community.

Interdependence 

1 Corinthians 12:17-18, 21

  • We need each other and we need our differences.

Constructed by God

1 Corinthians 12:24-25

  • God has out the body together

  • …so that there would be no division in the body

United In Love

1 Corinthians 12:31

  • And l I will show you an even better way

    • LOVE • 1 Corinthians 13

      • Romans 12:9-10

  • When one suffers, we all suffer. When one is honored, we all rejoice • 1 Corinthians 12:26

  • Philippians 2:4

  • James 2:15-16

  • John 13:35