People are admired for many reasons: their sporting prowess; their good looks; their intelligence; their signing abilities etc. But I have never heard anyone praise someone else saying "they have a wonderful pair of kidneys"! Yet if your kidneys stop working it is a disaster, we are all highly dependent upon our kidneys working properly. So it is with the body of Christ. There are many functions that may not be noticed, may even rarely be given attention to, or that we may even keep covered, but these are part of the body none the less, and are important. We need to view the body of Christ in the same way, recognising that we are all part of the one body, and that we all matter.
If one part of your body is ill or injured, then it affects your whole being. Again, so it is with the body of Christ. We cannot say that some parts of the church do not matter. If one is suffering, then it will affect others.
Paul closes with a list of functions within the church. Again, this is not an exclusive list. All are needed. No one does all the tasks. Paul will now turn to love, the essential quality that enables the body to work together properly.
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