I have a confession that may make the men reading this post uncomfortable. I went to a So You Think You Can Dance Tour show. Yes, I took Giana. It was impressive. To say dancing doesn't come naturally to me would be an enormous understatement. I am terrible. I can't string together 2 steps, let alone a routine. I noticed something encouraging as I watched the dancers at the show do things that mix athletic ability with crazy balance and impractical outfits. I realized that nearly every individual move the dancers executed looked pretty stupid by itself. If you were to isolate one particular step or hand motion or spin that these dancers performed, most would not seem very special. Put them together however, and a five-foot nothing kid who calls himself "Fik-Shun" can bring an auditorium to their feet in awe.

There's a reason the church is repeatedly called the "body of Christ" in Scripture. A body  is made up of so many different parts that perform vastly different functions to sustain life and to thrive. The same way a body made up of seventy spleens would not be particularly effective, our Creator knew a church of identical robots would be ill-equipped to worship a God of depth and power. I wouldn't assume the responsibility of handing out organ titles for everybody, but I was the City Church janitor for a while so you can safely assume it involves waste removal.

I had to detour a little bit from the point so that I could make that awful joke, but when I think of the City Church body as it appears on Sundays, I get really excited. The same way the individual dance moves from the show are kind of goofy individually, I know the work and preparation involved in making our church run is not glamorous. It can be messy and rough. But you have to be without a pulse to sit through a service and think God isn't doing something special here in Tallahassee.

I don't have the slightest clue where you fit in (or stand out) in the body. I do know that Christ has a habit of taking things that were serving no purpose other than fertilizer and restoring them and giving new life and purpose. Whatever capacity or position you take, I do hope you recognize the importance of the body working in unity. There's work to be done in Tallahassee.