Message Notes for February 16, 2025

Series: It’s About Love

Title: The Church is Christ’s Body on Earth

Bottom Line: “You need the church, and the church needs you!”

Message Verses: 1 Corinthians 12:14-27, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 1 Kings 18:22, 1 Kings 19:18, Ephesians 4:11-12.

∙ Praise because you are a member of His body 

∙ Give towards God’s purposes

∙ Serve God by serving others

∙ Pray for others, with others

Family/Group Study Notes for the week of February 16, 2025

Series: It’s About Love

Title: The Church is Christ’s Body on Earth

• Think about the example of the injured hand in the sermon. What small, seemingly insignificant parts of your body have you overlooked in their importance? Have you had an injury that revealed this? What small parts of the body or the church have you overlooked its importance? 
• Read 1 Corinthians 12:14-24. How does this comparison to the Church as a body help us understand our part? When did you think you were a weaker part of the body, not as valuable as other parts? 
• How can you recognize and use your unique gifts in the community? Have you ever learned of your spiritual gifts? 
• Read 1 Cor 12:25-25. How is the body of Christ supposed to treat one another? Where does it fall short? What is one way your community can lovingly live this out more?
• Jesus’ Body as the Temple: Read John 2:19-21. What does this comparison mean to you, and how does it affect the way you see the church as the living body of Christ?
• Giving to God’s Purposes: Read 1 Cor 12:14. The sermon mentioned giving toward God’s purposes within His body. How do you interpret this in your own life? What are some ways you can give—whether it’s time, resources, or talents—to support God’s work in the church this year?
• Read 1 Kings 18:22 & 1 Kings 19:18. Elijah felt alone, but God reminded him he wasn’t. How does loneliness affect your spiritual life? How can praying with and for others like Elijah impact your life? 
• Close by reading, reflecting and sharing your next steps of Praise, giving, serving and praying more within the body of Christ. Then read/reflect on the closing writing together. 

Writing from Teresa of Avila teachings of 16th Century: 

Christ has no body but yours,

No hands, no feet on earth but yours,

Yours are the eyes with which he looks

Compassion on this world,

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,

Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.

Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,

Yours are the eyes, you are his body.

Christ has no body now but yours.