This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
SCL Old Guest Post – Playing the “Body of Christ” card
Jul
11
2025
Here is a guest post I wrote for SCL back in the day (2011 in case you’re wondering). It wasn’t run because I didn’t actually write a full blog post for Jon, I just sent him an outline of ideas. But I decided to fill it out and present it to you today.
If you want to get out of some job or activity in the church, you have to bring a spiritual aspect to your reasoning. The easiest one in this case is to play the “body of Christ” card when someone asks you to do something.
“I know you need someone to teach Sunday school, but that’s like the role of the mouth or the hand or something. In the body of Christ, I’m the shoulder. Or maybe the collarbone.”
There are legitimate reasons to play that card though. Maybe you have tried to work in the nursery and you know that’s not where you belong.
Just don’t claim to be the tonsils.
But now God has arranged the parts, each one of them in the body, just as He desired.
1 Corinthians 12:18
