Opening (10 minutes)
Icebreaker Question: What’s your favourite movie that’s a “bad” movie? (Interpret this however you like)
Prayer (10 minutes)
Take a moment to quiet your mind. Allow the Holy Spirit to enter your heart and fill your mind with peace.
What’s on your mind right now? Write everything that’s been on your heart out on a piece of paper. Now imagine lifting these things to God and allowing Him to remove all your burdens.
Take some time to listen for God’s voice. After a couple of minutes, write a response.
Passage
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
Unity and Diversity in the Body
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[a] 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. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues[b]? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
Discussion (40 minutes)
What kind of person do you find most difficult to get along with? What kind of people do you find it easy to get along with?
Share about a time you found it difficult to serve or be in a ministry with someone.
Reflect on the people you come across in our church and your attitude towards these individuals. In what ways is God calling you to contribute to the unity of our church?
Think about someone God is calling you to pray for and reach out to. Share and pray for that person.
How can we keep you accountable in praying for and reaching out to that person?