Episode 410 | Identity in Community: You Belong to the Body
About this episode
Christine Caine discusses the importance of belonging to the body of Christ and embracing one's place in the community.
You might be in the right place. You're just not sure it's enough of a place. It doesn't look like much from the outside. Nobody's watching. Nobody's applauding. It's not the position you pictured when you said yes to God. And every time you scroll through someone else's highlight reel, your place feels smaller and smaller. But Christine Caine has a word for anyone who has ever felt overlooked, underplaced, or tempted to leave, and it comes straight from 1 Corinthians 12. In episode four of A Life Unleashed series, Christine Caine opens Paul's body of Christ metaphor and makes the case that where God sets you is never accidental and what you do there is never invisible, no matter how unseen it feels. In this episode, Christine Caine walks through 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 to show that the church is not a platform system where visibility equals significance. It is a body where every ligament, every unseen muscle, every hidden part is indispensable, and where one displaced part causes the whole body to limp. She makes the case that a gift displayed outside the body has no ultimate purpose, that God doesn't need a marketing plan to find you — He goes to the place He assigned you — and…
People in this episode
Host: Christine Caine
Topics covered
- identity
- community
- belonging
- church
- spirituality
- faith
Keywords
- identity
- community
- 1 Corinthians
- spirituality
- church
- belonging
- faith
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: 1 Corinthians 12, A Life Unleashed
More episodes of Equip & Empower Podcast with Christine Caine
- Episode 411 | You Are The Aroma of Christ: Living Out Your True Identity
- Episode 409 | You Are a Living Letter: How Your Life Reads to the World Around You
- Episode 408 | Your Spiritual Wardrobe: What to Put On and Take Off Now That You're in Christ
- Episode 407 | It Is Finished: What One Word from the Cross Changes About Your Identity
- Episode 406 | You Were Made for This: How God's Process Prepares You for Your Destiny
- Episode 405 | God's Promises Are Still Yes: Believing for What He Said He Would Do
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