Every Piece Matters: Placed by God. Needed in the Body.
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by Bart Denny A reflection on 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 (adapted from a sermon preached at Pathway Church in Saranac, Michigan on May 3 and available here ). Here's something I've never quite admitted out loud. There have been moments in my life — in ministry, even — where I quietly wondered if I actually mattered. Not in a dramatic, crisis-of-faith kind of way. It was subtler than that. I'd look around and think, Someone else could do this better than me. Maybe I'm not really that necessary here. I wouldn't have said it out loud. But the thought was there — that quiet assumption that if I stayed on the edges, if I didn't fully engage, everything would probably still be fine. Someone more gifted would pick it up. Someone more visible would carry it. I could just… hang back. And if I'm honest, most of the time that didn't come from laziness. It came from comparison. From not being sure that what I brought really made much of a difference. From finding it e...