1. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12

2. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 When people ask me what makes me optimistic about life....

3. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 My Answer? The Church! “What? You must be kidding!”

4. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Missiological Many feel that the Church doesn’t work anymore!

5. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Personal The Church is hypocritical & judgmental!

6. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Historical Across the years the Church has become corrupted!

7. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 But every place it has been ‘snuffed out’, it is thriving!

8. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 The Church is ‘the Place You Most Belong!’

9. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 1 Corinthians 12:12- 20 12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members…

10. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body…

11. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body…

12. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not…

13. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?

14. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

15. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member…

16. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …where would the body be? 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.”

17. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 You, a Part of the Whole Unity out of Diversity

18. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Designed to Reflect God’s Redemptive Power!

19. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Colossians 1:16 NCV “Through his power all things were made— things in heaven and on earth, things seen…

20. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ.”

21. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Differing Roles More than the Sum of Our Parts

22. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Called to Complete God’s Purposes in the World!

23. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” (Aristotle)

24. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Romans 12:1-2, 4-5 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies…

25. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world…

26. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

27. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many…

28. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.”

29. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Purposes of God Pleasing the Heart of God

30. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Actively Bringing Glory to God!

31. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 Isaiah 43:7 “Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory…

32. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

33. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 This is Your Moment!

34. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 For the work, mission, & purpose of the Church…

35. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 …requires every ONE of God’s redeemed, transformed & saved people!

36. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12 It requires YOU!

37. The Place You Most Belong! I Corinthians 12