We are the body

In Ephesians 4:11-16, Paul calls the believers “to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ... From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”

Paul compares the church to a human body, which is formed of groups of cells. The body is comprised of nerve cells, muscle cells, blood cells and skin cells. Each...