Scripture Reading: 

“Our first scripture comes from the 12th chapter in the book of 1st Corinthians, verses 12-14, and 21-27.”

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts from one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

“Our second scripture comes from the 150th Psalm”

Praise God in his sanctuary; praise God in the mighty heavens.
Give praise for God’s acts of power and excelling greatness.
Praise God with the sounding of the trumpet. Praise God with the harp and lyre. Praise God with timbrel and dancing; praise God with the strings and pipe; praise God with the clash of cymbals; yes! The clanging cymbals.

Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord!

“This is the Word of God for the people of God—Thanks be to God”