05 Different Gifts, One Giver - Cure for the Common Life (MP3)

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Doctors have never seen anything like it. No one part of the body likes the other. Jealousy plagues each organ. The knees, which were given caps, envy the heels who were given spurs. The lips resent the hot air of the nose, and the nose doesn't like being picked on. The brain has a mind of its own, and the right hand refuses to let the left hand know what it is doing. A clear case of mutiny on the body.

Can you imagine such chaos? How would you live in a body like that? How could you function? If its members don't accept their roles, the body won't work. Paul's point precisely.  Multiple times he makes one point: Christians are Christ's body.