Healthy Organisms Grow
“Healthy organisms grow”1 that is what is expected from ever organism that God has created. Many people go through not knowing what to expect, but the Scriptures give us direction for the work of our lives. Before the Fall of humanity God instructed Adam and Eve to have dominion over all of creation… and to “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:26-28). For the most part, we understand the gist of having dominion over creation for survival and we’re ok at the multiplying part, and fruit is being produced but the quality is never consistent. The element that affects God’s mandate to humanity is the ecology or the environment that encourages growth. Use the environment around you to encourage and express the faith you have.
Paul told the Corinthian church that believers of Jesus Christ are the contents of one body (1 Cor. 12:12-19). Like every creature, bodies are made with different parts to enable us to accomplish different tasks that ultimately allow the body to grow and experience life. “Researchers have demonstrated that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It is more like a complex ecosystem”2. If each of our bodies is considered an ecosystem depending on other parts for health, then we, as a body of Christ, should do the same. Have you checked on anyone from the church today or this week?
When we are mindful of others for the cause of Christ, it allows us to identify the next steps for our faith as well as our church and ultimately causes us to grow. See what Paul told the church in Ephesus: “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love (Eph. 4:15-16). The question for you is, do you want to grow?
Paul told the Corinthian church that believers of Jesus Christ are the contents of one body (1 Cor. 12:12-19). Like every creature, bodies are made with different parts to enable us to accomplish different tasks that ultimately allow the body to grow and experience life. “Researchers have demonstrated that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It is more like a complex ecosystem”2. If each of our bodies is considered an ecosystem depending on other parts for health, then we, as a body of Christ, should do the same. Have you checked on anyone from the church today or this week?
When we are mindful of others for the cause of Christ, it allows us to identify the next steps for our faith as well as our church and ultimately causes us to grow. See what Paul told the church in Ephesus: “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love (Eph. 4:15-16). The question for you is, do you want to grow?
- Speer, Bradley “Next Steps” (Sermon series Root: part 4) Feb. 2, 2025, https://www.oasissbc.com/media/dz4bk74/roots-part-4
- Jennifer Ackerman, “The Ultimate Social Network,” Scientific American, June 2012, 38.
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