Inconspicuous But Indispensable | Ps Dan O'farrell

Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast.

Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to

take hold of, so we hope this message inspires you and build

your faith. That it helps you have more of

the. God perspective for your day.

Enjoy the. Month is you, us, and the church

and the body of Christ. And so I want to open up some

scripture this morning. I don't know if I'm going to get

through it all because it's quite a lot.

In this passage, I titled the message.

That's not the message titled I did title, but I had a cup of

coffee between then and now, and I changed the change the title

of the message to inconspicuous but indispensable.

That's some big words for Sunday morning, aren't they?

Inconspicuous but indispensable. And so I want, I want to open

the word up this morning from One Corinthians chapter 12.

Now Paul wrote letters to the Roman church in Rome and he

wrote letter to 2 letters to the church in Corinth, 1 Corinthians

and Two Corinthians and, and, and chapter 12 in both of those

letters he goes through pretty well the same thing.

He wants to talk about the body of Christ.

And so I'm going to move along pretty quick today because I

have got a bit to get through and so might have to just keep

up with me if that's possible. OK, I'm in training mood, not

preaching mood. So one Corinthians chapter 12,

it's Paul wrote this letter to the Corinthian church and he's

talking about the body of Christ.

Now the body of Christ being bigger than me, I'm not the body

of Christ. I'm a member of the body of

Christ. You are a member of the body of

Christ. If if this is your first day,

here you are and have given your life to Jesus, you're part of

that body. The church is part of that body.

And so Paul talks about the church as being the body of

Christ. And so he writes in One

Corinthians 12/12 he says just as the body is 1 and has many

members, OK, that being you and me has many members and all the

members are of the one body, though many one body.

So it is with Christ in verse 14 it says the body does not

consist of 1 member, but of many very, very important message.

It says in Psalm 139 it says that you and I were fearfully

and wonderfully made. We were fearfully and

wonderfully made. No matter what you think about

yourself or what you try to do to yourself to make yourself

look more acceptable, approachable, or to get on with

the other workmates or whatever it may be, I want you to know

the way God made you is perfect. Come on, the way He made you is

perfect. You were fearfully and

wonderfully made and so is the church.

And my first point I want to bring about this is that the

difference between all of us is when God made the world, he made

a world full of variety, full of variety.

He loves variety. It says in One Corinthians 12/4.

It says now there are there are varieties or diversity of gifts

of the same Spirit and there are diversity of services, but the

same Lord and there are diversities of workings, but of

the same God who inspires or who works in everyone.

Now as I look at you this morning, I see a great

congregation of people, but you're all different.

That's right, some of you come from Somalia, some from the

Solomons. Home belong you.

Some of you's come from Australia, some of us from

Ireland. All different ages, different

talents, different genders. Only two born a male man by

choice. But we've got all different

gifts in this place today, haven't we?

Someone's got the gift of mercy, someone's got the gift of

encouragement. We've got the gifts of

leadership, we've got the gifts of ministry, We've got the gifts

of stay at home mums. We praise you, we honour you, we

thank you. My wife was a stay at home mum

and we have never been so happy she was.

If you work as well, I'm not criticizing that, but sometimes

we don't honour these people enough.

We got people who pray, we got our intercessory prayers, thank

God for them. We got our finance people,

people who born, they operate in the gift of finance, can make a

lot of money very quickly, and they finance the ministries of

God. We've got people who counsel

people in finance. We've got the people of helps,

we've got the people of wisdom, people of faith, people of

hospitality. We got a lovely couple in this

church. When Anne and I first came with

the gift of hospitality, they invited us over for a meal.

Meant so much to us, meant so much.

We've got professional people. We have people in the medical

field, in the trades. We have people who counselled.

Talking to gentlemen this morning he's doing his master's

degree in psychology. We will pray for you.

We've got counsellors, we've got teachers.

I'm a life coach. I couldn't do so.

I couldn't do counselling. I don't have enough empathy.

But we have people of grace. We got evangelism as a gift, but

also we have soul winners by responsibility.

That's interesting. We have chaplains, we have

hospital chaplains, we have school chaplains, we have prison

chaplains, we have industry chaplains.

Whole range of we have discipleship, small group

leaders, we have people look after our Sunday school, people

look after our youth, we have people look after our young

adults. And then we go, our senior

pastors look after us. We take a lot of looking after.

So we're so different, aren't we?

So many gifts. And that's the body of Christ.

So it's bigger than you and me. And this message today is not

about a recruitment drive to bring people to do more in this

church, 'cause Anne and I, 99% of what we do in our ministry is

outside these four walls, beautiful streets.

We go into a whole range of places that have nothing to do

with this church. But that's our ministry.

That's what we're called to do. So we're all different, everyone

of us. And Paul says as the human body

has many parts that have to work together for the body to

function well. And for us about as a body of

Christ, we've got to function together, we gotta work

together. And as we work together, this

nation of Australia will be touched by God and we've got to

take the responsibility for where our nation is at the

moment. We've got to take

responsibility. The church has got to take

responsibility. If we don't like abortion in our

land, we've got to do something about that.

And it's more than placards on the street.

We've got to get people into government who can make the big

decisions. The church has got to do its

job. The body of Christ has got to

function. We've got to function.

We all have different age for every different places in our

life. We've been retired for some

years, but we're redefining where retirement is because

we're not 6 foot under the ground yet.

And every day this side of the grass, I've got work to do

because my nation that I live in needs the gift that I carry and

it needs a gift that you carry. We got workplaces that need to

be touched. We got chippies in this place

who, when they're on the job site, can talk to people about

Christ. We've got doctors who can go

into hospitals and and work with people in their place.

And so the first thing I want to say here today is the

inconspicuous are indispensable, 'cause Anne and I, we're

inconspicuous to you most of the time, but we're indispensable in

the land, in our neighborhood and in our community.

And so are all of us. I looked up.

I went on to chat. TVT people like me have got to

feel a bit so I looked up what does inconspicuous in

indispensable means. It means someone that is quietly

doing their job in the background that no one knows

about and yet things would not work without them.

Perfect example is Pastor Henry, I come up here on some Thursdays

and I see Pastor Henry here doing his stuff on a whole tribe

of guys behind him cutting grass and cleaning.

You know what, I honestly thought that the angels clean

the church. They do.

I thought somehow they came in when you're not watching you

know between and they do it till last Sunday turned around and

all mates over the side there with a vacuum cleaner cleaning

of Lord dear Lord, thank God for them.

Thank God for them. It takes us all takes us all

takes us all takes us all takes me it takes you.

The second point I mean I want to make here today is the need

for all of us, not just some of us the need for all of us.

I got this little sentence here write it down.

I know it's Sunday morning, but this is this is a profound

little thing that I came up with.

We are all interconnected in a symbiotic, synergistic

relationship. Let me explain it.

Last week I couldn't spell engineer.

Today I am 1. What does it mean we are

interconnected in a symbiotic? What did the gardeners know?

What symbiosis? Symbiosis is when you get 2

organisms that work together for the benefit of both of them.

Church. There's no loners in the body of

Christ. There's no lone ranges in the

body of Christ. We are in a symbiotic I connect

a really good one is like a marriage.

Anne and IA symbiotic 53 something full years of

marriage. Over that time we have a

symbiotic relationship where both of us benefit from our

relationship. Anne is the brains and I am the

Jeep. OK, we got it worked out.

Anne is the smart. She is the one that nuts, the

she is the creative one. I am the the developer.

We buy houses, we renovate them, we sell them.

She'll know how to do one part, I do another part.

We come out very well. That is symbiosis.

Synergy means 1 + 1 = 3, and so synergy is it means that the

outcome of the 2 is far greater than the addition of each one.

We are in a connected symbiotic synergistic relationship where

you and I in the body of Christ connect with one another so that

the outcomes are far greater than what we could ever do by

ourselves. A good example is 2 people.

One person might be a really good cook and loves to cook

beautiful food, but but scrolls with shyness.

But they want to see people come to the Lord say so they connect

up with somebody who who's a real extrovert and a real

people's person and really can talk about Christ.

Those two get together. One puts the barbecue on and the

other one does the soul winning. That's what we call a symbiotic

relationship in One Corinthians 12/21/22.

It says the I cannot say to the hand I have no need for you.

Nor again can the heart say the head, but nor again said the

head say to the feet, I have no need for you.

And the new King James Bible puts this really good.

He says I have no need for you, and he says no, no, no.

On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker

or inconspicuous are indispensable.

And there's people in this congregation today.

You've got amazing gifts over your life and you think that

they are insignificant. They are not insignificant.

They are indispensable. And we need to know how we

connect up into the symbiotic relationship where we can change

our world for Jesus Christ. They seem inconspicuous.

Here. We going for time nine year ago,

Nine year ago, I went for an operation where they had to

replace my left hip. It was all arthritic and worn

out, and in that first operation, I was one on 99% of

people who have that operation. The operation went really,

really well. We had a house at Browns Plains

that we were renovating at the time.

Day after I got home, I was on the roof changing tiles and

doing what I stupidly do. My wife, The Walking risk

assessment said. What are you doing up there, you

buffet? Changing the tiles?

What do you think I'm doing? You just had a major operation.

Yeah, well, it'll be all right. What's wrong with you?

It went really well. Can you be that dumb and still

breathe two years later? I had the other hip replaced,

but when I had the other hip replaced, I was part of the 1%

where the operation didn't go well.

And so they get you out of bed 2 hours after the operation and

they get you to stand and to walk on it.

And I hopped on and and my left leg gave away and I said my leg

don't work. That's the point when the

doctors and the nurses head for the hills, I can tell you they

all scattered. Rang the doctor.

What do you mean he can't walk? And I said I can't walk.

I'm I'm like the guy took his car and get the tires changed.

When he came back in, the engine was missing.

You know, never felt like that. You know, the leg don't work,

leg don't work. Now up this part of your leg

here, there's four basic muscles.

We call them the quadriceps 4 meaning quads.

You also got another one. The longest muscle in your body

is sartorius that goes down. Now these four muscles plus the

sartorius, they're the muscles that enable you to walk, OK.

They enable you to walk up steps, they enable you to kick,

they enable you to run and they enable you to walk well.

But none belongings to me that during the operation the

pheromone nerve got injured, the inconspicuous but the

indispensable got damaged. They told me I damaged it.

I said mate, I wasn't playing a game football, I was out to it.

They said yeah, well you damaged your nerves so the pheromone

nerve hold your little finger up.

They said be your pheromone nerve is about 8 to 10 mil in

diameter, inconspicuous little nerve.

Now I bet this morning that none of you's got out of bed and

thought, I hope my legs work. I said to Stan.

I said to Stan this morning. I said, Stan, you get the

sexiest legs in the in the church.

Like I say, up and sorry, Shane, sorry.

And up until that point, I had the sexiest legs in the street

too, I can tell you. But they weren't any good after

that. My leg never worked because the

inconspicuous, the part that I took for granted, the part that

every morning I got up to make a cup of tea worked and all of a

sudden the part of the body didn't work.

So I said to the doctor, I said, well, how long is it going to be

taking for this thing get fixed up?

Don't know, he said, but if it's not fixed by 18 months, it's not

going to work anymore. So it came back that I had to

wear a, a big long leg brace. And if you know me, I, I'm not

going to live my life wearing braces.

So I was determined that this leg was going to work.

It's got to work. So I learned to walk without the

brace and I learned to flick my leg and I'd walk around, I heard

smelling the lawn one day and of course Jeff's next door.

You're right, Dan said. Mate, don't talk.

And what would happen? I'd walk around the block,

flicking my leg, so like that, but then what would happen?

Variably the leg would give away and I'd end up on the ground, on

my face, in the gravel, and I'd come home like I'd played a game

of football, with blood pouring down my arms and enough hide off

being to make a nice pair of dancing shoes.

And wasn't pretty. Wasn't pretty, 18 months came

and went, still no leg working. But friends, that's what the

church looks like when the inconspicuous don't do what they

should be doing. The church ends up walking with

a limb, a spiritual limb. And that's why our nation is

where it's at. Because the body of Christ isn't

doing what the body of Christ should be doing. 1 little move

size, your pinky, that's all works. 5 big muscles.

It's a motor nerve and a sensory nerve, which means I've got no

feeling down inside of my leg. And two muscles grew back, the

other two muscles shrunk. So I don't have any muscles

there now. But what a picture of the body

of Christ that can be. What a picture of the body of

Christ. Where atrophy sets in and then

apathy sets in and it shrinks up.

And so today I want to bring it before, you know, Paul was

talking about the body of Christ.

I've got a calling to the body. 75 this year.

I can say, oh, mate, I've done my deal.

I just want to kick back. Well, no, haven't gone to be

with Jesus yet. Pastor Henry, that's when the

day comes we'll get young people today you get a gift on your

life. Your nation needs you, your

nation needs you, your nation needs you.

And so when we're thinking about every part has its place to to

play. So the next point I want to

bring out is the need for all. All parts are equal.

And if one part profits, the whole body profits.

In One Corinthians 12/16 it says if the ears should say because

I'm not an I, I do not belong to the body, that would make you

lesser of a body. Or if one member suffers

together, they all suffer. But when 1 member who's

honoured, they all honoured. Look, today we've got people up

here who play. It doesn't mean they're any

better than the person who goes into the prisons and does prison

ministry no better. They're in, no one sees that.

I, I do a lot of work in prisons, done a lot of the

prisons up and down the East Coast and in Victoria and in New

South Wales. And all I know in there is a lot

of people that need Jesus. Come on, some of you just ran

faster than those guys. You didn't get caught, Come on,

we all need Jesus and because you're not seen it doesn't mean

that you are not needed. We need all and when one is

honoured it's all honoured. So if Anne goes in and

volunteers for Lifeline and and lead someone to the Lord and

there you are honoured. You may not know about it, but

the body of Christ grows and that's why we do it.

We are all interconnected in a symbiotic and synergistic

relationship. We are all connected, all of us,

every one of us Think about it together.

We can do more. When we had our church in

Caloundra, we had a church there for 15 years and they had a lady

came to me one day and she said, Dan, she said, I, I like to

knit. I said, oh, God bless you.

God bless you until she said, but I, I could do some knitting

here in the church. What do you think about I, if I

get a couple of friends, we could, we could start a little

knitting group. Oh, I said, well, that's if you

want to do that. That sounds pretty cool.

Before I knew it, she had about 8 or 10 ladies in that, and they

call themselves the Sunshine Knitters.

Think about this. Yeah, I mean it.

Start. All things start off small.

Before long, I had 8/10/12. And I'd come out of my office

and they'd perk up. We bought a nice big industrial

coffee machine. You've got to have one of those

things. And we'd make brews up and

everyone'd be making a brew and they'd come out.

Oh, how come I meet old Aunt Myrtle?

Oh, hello, Aunt Myrtle. You know, Aunt Myrtles, this is

her first time here there and she hasn't been to church.

She doesn't come to church. And before we know it, those

ladies, they're leading to Aunt Myrtle to the Lord Jesus and

she's coming to church. And I thought, oh, Gee, that's

pretty cool. And so they got together and

they went around to to lie spotlight and they said, if

you've got any old wool you can give us.

They said, yeah, we got wool, we can.

And before we knew it, they had all this wool there.

And so they're knitting all of the stuffed cardigans and people

for in Africa, and all of a sudden they've got an outreach

happening going overseas to New Guinea, into the Solomons.

And not that the Solomons need jumpers, mind you.

But anyway, they were sending them over there and they were

doing all of this stuff. This is what I'm talking about.

Every little insignificant, every little bit inconspicuous

things that we have when we get together and work together, and

these things can become profound.

Man, every Tuesday, can women talk?

Oh, I'm telling you what? They could talk underwater with

a mouth or a marble. Some of these girls, oh na, na,

na, na na, but in the process, they're leading people to the

Lord. They're helping people.

This is what we're talking about, interconnection with some

biotic relationships. The body of Christ doing what

the body of Christ does. The next point .4 How are we

going? I'm running out of steam here.

Done all right, Shane #4 God chooses in verse 8, he says, But

as it is, God arranges the organs in the body, each one of

them as he chooses, God arranges these.

I want to tell you a story. When Anna I first got born again

and in his file I was pretty, I was quite a rough diamond and

God had a bit of work to do. But anyway, I thought I saw

these musos up the front and now are pretty cool and I thought,

oh, Henry, if I get up there mate, I'm super Spiro.

I mean, I'd sort of stop swearing, I'd stop drinking.

I had some other things I had to work through as well.

But I thought if I could get up on the stage mate, I'd be I'd be

pretty cool. So I was going to become a muso.

All my brothers and sisters, they're all trained musicians.

My two sisters are very highly trained on the piano.

My brothers, they've, he's got a Irish band up in, up in

Walkerman where you're from. And my younger brother, he all,

all musos. All my, our kids are musos.

Daughter who's a music teacher. I've got a son who's a really

great drummer. We had to put a thicker one of

those around him for keeping quiet, mind you.

And we had another daughter, she could play anything.

So I said to her, obviously it's in the jeans, obviously.

So I buys this guitar and I'm practicing this guitar and I'm

practicing. Oh mate, I'm going to get up on

that stage and I'm just going to be so out there.

Spiro had that guitar two years and I'm bashing away.

My youngest daughter called a family conference after that

family conference. Plenty of pizza and coke.

They came to the decision that Dad was best selling his guitar

and buying a power saw and a hammer drill, which Dan did.

But I am a person of determination, so I thought,

obviously I'm a singer. Well, I'd heard myself sing in

the shower enough, mate, I'm a soprano.

My dad, he used to always sing when Irish eyes are smiling.

You know how good you sound in the shower.

He's in there. Balloon away, man.

I thought, oh mate, obviously the anointing's over my life to

be a singer, a song leader. So here we go, one day in

Caloundra. I'm up there.

I'm the senior pastor because when you're the senior pastor,

you got the right to the mic. Is that right past this right?

I'm going to show you this church man.

I'm up there balling away, singing away and singing away.

And, and anyway, that went alright for a week or two.

What I didn't realize, my daughter Renee, who was our

music director, she'd spoken to the guys down the back and said

turn dad's mic off, please. But no, no, this is what I was

going to be. I mean, I was God gifted.

My auntie was the Australian soprano champion at 18.

Get that? How many you can say that?

I mean, it's in the jeans. Obviously I chose and I was a

singer, so I'm up there. They turned my mic off, but man,

I was going to be heard. Aye, the next minute I hear this

little sweet voice in my ear from my daughter saying, Dad,

can you please be quiet? God chooses, but I'm determined.

So I make instruments now. I make violins, I make lutes, I

make guitars and I make instruments because that's the

gift that God's given me. I wasn't that bad.

I didn't think so. But there's nothing worse than a

person outside of their gift. Is that right?

Come on. Is that right?

I mean, you don't let me in the kitchen.

I would poison you, honestly. Honestly.

But I make a mean guitar and I make really good violins.

And what Anne can work out with her gift of creativity, I can

make many things I can't do. But see, the body of Christ is

made-up of people like you and me, People who Can't Sing for

nuts. I wondered I couldn't ever work

it out. I finally got on the stage, hey

with the guitar and I always wondered well, every time I

hopped up all the others were sick that day.

What's going on? And I remember 1 halfway through

through praise and worship, everyone's in God and my hands

got sore, Chris, my hands got sore.

So I just stopped playing, sorry.

And the musically turned around said what's going on?

Said my hands are sore. God chooses what you're going to

do. The the talent you got is the

talent you're born with. The gift you've got is the gift

you get when you're born again. It's not for me to choose.

It's not for me to choose. Oh, I want to do this.

I want to know. Someone said, why do you still

preaching? Well, that's what I'm told to

do. Does that make sense?

And today there's people in this church here.

You, you think you've got this inconspicuous gift.

You think you've got this, this, this gift that no one would

want. Well, why don't you try it and

see what God will do with it? When I came to the Lord, I said

to my pastor, I said pastor, I said, I'll fix your buildings

up, but don't ever ask me to preach.

I never want to do that. And what did he do to me?

It's not for me to choose the old saying, I'm not here to ask

the reasons why. I'm just here to do and die.

That's what we're here to do. And when you do, when I do what

I'm called to do, when I accept the gift that God's given me,

when I can accept that and pray over that gift and believe God

for that gift and can give that gift exposure to be able to

work. You know, there's people you,

you're in the workplace and you think that you don't have a gift

from God. There's people in your workplace

that need to hear about Jesus. I know what it's like.

I I've worked in the mines, I've worked underground and working

in the area of safety and people coming to meet me.

No, mate, we could talk safety. No, but then you don't

understand. My marriage is messed up.

I need help. And today when we think about

it, we are interconnected. You know what?

Pastor Rachel can't do what she does in the school as a school

chaplain unless we have their intercessory prayers in the dark

when no one knows about that. They're praying and they believe

in God for miracles. Today.

People have spent hours praying for this meeting today.

You don't know who they are, but they know who they are and they

know they're anointed and then they're empowered.

Come on, come on, let's think about you.

You might say, well, who am I? Well, who am I?

When I came a pastor, I walked down the street at Minnesota and

went. One of my mates, he said, what

are you doing for a living now, Dan?

I said I'm a pastor and he looked at me and said, do they

let anyone become pastors these days?

Do they? Obviously I said to one guy, I

said I'm a pastor. He said what?

A plasterer. No, not a plasterer, a pastor, a

pastor in Innisfile. I never thought I'd end up that

way. We just wanted to build houses

and I just wanted to be an engineer.

But see, God had a call in the body of Christ.

You are part of that body, Church.

You are part of that body. And if you don't accept that

you're a part and that God has given you a part to play in this

whole whole thing that God's doing, we're going to walk like

I did. The church is going to walk with

a limp. It's going to walk with a limp.

And you know, I still got part of a limp because two muscles

grew back and two didn't. I have trouble walking up steps.

I have trouble walking down steps.

But that's part of the deal, isn't it?

Is that part of the deal? But I don't want the body of

Christ to walk with a limb. I don't want it.

I don't want it to be disabled. I want our nation to change.

I want, I want you to to enjoy the rewards of serving Jesus.

We're the happiest couple on earth.

Why? Because we spent our lives

serving Him. What could you do?

Hands the brains of the operation on the mouthpiece.

We've got a synergistic relationship.

She gets the ideas and I build them.

Does that make sense? I'm still the leader.

I still take the responsibility of the leadership.

Although we're very much a team. I take the pressure of the

leadership. I'm the one that says yes or no,

because that's my role. I don't like that very much.

Most men don't. Is that right?

We we like to pass it on to our wife.

No, no, that's my responsibility as a male, as the man, as the

husband. Just read Ephesians.

It says that I'm the head of the I've got to make, I've got to

lay down my life for our relationship and I've got to do

the hard yards. I had to do the fly in, fly out

to the mines. I had to work the night shifts.

I had to work the hours. But that's the deal.

Is it? Is that right now we're going

here. Can you smiles, friend?

Don't rob yourself, don't rob yourself of the glory of serving

Christ. And it might be mowing the

lawns, it might be painting the buildings, but it might be the

prison ministry, it might be going to court with people.

It might be the counsellors. Talking to gentleman this

morning. He's doing his masters in

psychology. What an incredible impact he

will have in our nation. I go into businesses and I train

people in the area of mental health first aid and the people

I meet in those big businesses, multinational businesses, are

made-up of a lot of broken people.

Did you hear that? Our nation is, is it's led by a

lot of broken people, Broken people, people who need to hear

the gospel, people who need to have a friend, people who got an

ear to listen. You say, Dan, I'm not educated.

Well, join the club. That's where it's at.

And the 3rd and final point I'm going to make here.

Today is time for muses. You were going to come when it

was time. I've been waiting for you guys.

The last part is, is verse 25, that there may be no discord,

discord in the body, but that the members may have the same

care for one another. You know, as a body of Christ,

we've got to care for one another.

Too often I hear of criticism, this music's too loud and this,

you know, God's not deaf. I know he's not deaf.

That's the way people are. Is that right?

We've got to care for one another.

I remember with this nerve in my leg, 18 months had gone by and,

and I was still falling over and still making a mess of myself.

And, and I'm sitting on the end of the bed and I'm, I'm, I'm,

I'm caring for this nerve. I'm praying over it.

Father, I speak healing into it. I speak healing and and still

there was no no feeling in my leg.

There's no movement in my leg. You know, I sit on the end of

the bed and and there was just no brain body connection.

And in one day it moved must have been about a thousandth of

an inch. And Anne was in the kitchen.

I yelled out it's happened. It's happened up until that day

I was falling over in the kitchen, breaking the handles

off the drawers and I was a mess.

But I wasn't going to be held by anything, wasn't going to be

held. And for two years it took every

day I had to care for that nerve because there's an old saying

that nerves are easily offended and slow to forgive.

Bit like people I've heard. But that's the choice down the

road. But every day I had to care for

that nerve, I had to pray of that nerve and I'd see if that

nerve was going to work. And for two years it didn't.

But the day came when it moved a little bit and it took about six

months to get that much movement on it.

And over a period of about four years, I slowly could start to

walk again took time. That member had the work.

That little insignificant, that insignificant little nerve, that

inconspicuous little thing was indispensable.

And your gift is no different. Your gift is no different.

What's over your life is no different.

But the body of Christ needs it. It needs it.

The body of Christ needs you. You, you young people.

We need your freshness, we need your enthusiasm.

We need your zest for life, you old people.

We need your life experience. Because you know what dry

gullies are like and you know what it's like to be discouraged

and get yourself back up off the mat.

We need that the body cry. You haven't got to do a lot of

physical stuff to bring that to the body of Christ.

We need you to grab some of these young people and to train

them. Young marriage.

We need you. We need you to train your kids.

We need for you to put into your kids.

You empty nest is out there. We need you because now you've

got a little bit more time and probably a little bit more

money. Would that be right?

We're not spend so much money on Nikes and things like we need

you. The body of Christ needs you.

Well, that almost went over like a jumbo jet, didn't it?

We need you so this morning.