" 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."
Last night at Asbury UMC in Bossier we (the youth group) talked about the body of Christ. We are in a three week study of the book of Corinthians (1 and 2). We discussed that every person has a role in God's Kingdom and that every person has special gifts. We acknowledged that each gift is important and no one gift is special.
Tonight in Colloquium (CLC's weekly meeting) we discussed what it meant to be a servant leader. We know that every person brings something different to the table, and that we all live in unity to spread God's Word and love throughout our world. We did some cool activities that validated, for me, what unity in the body of Christ meant.
Tonight we made a personal mission statement. We chose from a list of verbs (three) that described who we are as people. We also chose our core value from a list that we felt best fit us. We combined those into a formula that calculated our mission statement.
My mission statement was, "My mission is to connect, lead, and worship relationships in myself and others."
This exercise made me realize that my mission statement is different from the person's sitting next to me, but without theirs the Kingdom of God wouldn't exist and so on.....
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