Body Life

You find the principle of Body Life in the New Testament. It’s a term for those of us who have tried to mobilize people for ministry and also to insure that the Body of Christ is functioning with the Life.

The scriptural principle for Body Life is largely rooted in I Corinthians 12. There, Paul uses the illustration of the human body. He shows how all the body parts are interrelated and dependent upon one another. Three principles that surface are:

1. Unity
2. Individuality
3. Dependency

The Genesis ministry model developed from those three areas. In other words, we are all one, yet we are individuals within the oneness. We are all dependent upon one another. Everything that we have tried to do in terms of building a ministry has been to promote unity and also to help individuals express their individuality according to their giftedness and the ability God has given them.

In Body Life all of us are needed; all of us must function. All of us have God-given ability to function. The question is finding where I function and then doing it to the best I can to the glory of God.

One of the phrases that comes very clear to us throughout the New Testament is the phrase “one another.” Over 75 times throughout the New Testament God is referring to something about “one another”: “Bear ye one another’s burdens, lie not one another.” We’ve got to be one-another people. We are the church with the one-another mind set. They had all things in common. They broke bread together. They were always together. There was unity, individuality, and the dependency all flowing out of the one-another mind set.

Pastor Cockrell