Human Physiology is the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of normal humans, their organs, and the cells of which they are composed.
Anatomy and physiology are closely related fields of study. Anatomy is the study of form, and physiology is the study of the function of the human body.
Today in our third installment of our series called Check Up for the Church, we will be looking at the physiology or the function of the local church assembly of the Body of Christ.
What are we seeing today? Examination
There is some debate as to whether technology has given us more time or robbed us of time. Today people seem to be busier than ever before.
An article on cbsnews.com testifies that this “busyness” has opened up a market of services where people can hire others to help them with some of the most mundane tasks imaginable.
Lloyd Garver writes, “In today's busy world, there are people who do all kinds of things for others that everybody used to do for themselves. There is a phrase that we hear more and more these days: "I have a guy who does that for me." I'm not just talking about people who will mow your lawn or shovel your snow or do your taxes. Today, you can hire someone who will organize your closets, or stand in line for you at the bank, or choose an anniversary gift for your spouse, or play catch with your kid while you watch TV.”
Garver writes, “Recently, I learned about another "Don't Do It Yourself" service: in the Philippines, if you're too busy to pray, you can hire somebody to do it for you.”
Not only are people busy, they are overwhelmed. Sociologists use a couple of different terms to describe what causes people to feel as if they are weighed down by the circumstances of life:
Saturation – In the lives of many there is too much. There are too many things to do. You are told you must watch your cholesterol; monitor your blood-glucose; avoid eating certain foods; get your exercise.
The other day an Associated Press report stated “Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police.” And the sentence that immediately followed said, “An FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear."”
Our lives are saturated. You’ve got to raise your kids; help them with their homework; attend their sporting events; study material from your job; familiarize yourself with this process; go to this seminar; attend this meeting; check up on family members; do church ministry. Someone said, “Makes you want to jump off the world.” The lives of many feel saturated.
Then there is a second term sociologists use is: Amplification – This term refers to problems that were before considered “small problems;” they are now amplified. The proportion or scale of things is much bigger. Molehills are now mountains. The Arab proverb, “the straw that broke the camel’s back” does so frequently. “That last straw” is just too much to bear. The last nerve is picked and people are going postal over the little things—“I shot him because he looked at me the wrong way.”
Alvin Toffler in his book Future Shock uses the term “information overload” to describe too much information and an inability to grasp it. Someone has coined the term data asphyxiation. David Lewis of the International Stress Management Association originated the phrase "information fatigue syndrome." This barrage of data to which we are constantly exposed, carries a cost, both physically and mentally.
We also live in a consumer-driven society. It is buy, buy, buy and if you have no money it is charge, charge, charge. Most people are as the commercial says, “in debt up to their eyeballs.”
Have you ever overheard a conversation between two or three women about there they shop for groceries?
“Yeah girl! Safeway has the best deals! They have the reddest meat and NY Strip Steak is on sale the weekend for only $7.95 a pound!”
“You may like Safeway but I like Shoppers—they are the best market around. They have the cleanest stores and I know my way around. If you need some help just ask any of the employees are more than glad to serve you with a smile.”
“But Safeway has a Starbucks in it! I always got to have my Café Mocha while I shop.”
Today this kind of consumerism has invaded the church. Many of us have heard conversations like this:
“Girlfriend, my church, Mt. Pleasantness has a choir that can sing . This week they are in revival all week long with a preacher that’s come all the way from Texas.”
Her friend says, “But you ain’t heard a mass choir until you’ve been at New Promise Church”
A third woman says, “At my church, Empowerment Chapel, we’ve got a mass choir, a youth choir, a women’s choir, a men’s choir and a dynamic, Holy Ghost filled preacher. Did you see him on TBN the other day? We’ve got 12 church vans and own our own restaurant down on Fulton Street. Oh yeah…our men and women’s restrooms have flat screen TVs so you can see the service while you are taking care of business.”
Consumerism has invaded the church! People shop around for churches like they shop around for cars—what’s in it for them?
Related to the increase in consumerism and materialism in society is hedonism.
The Answers.com dictionary defines hedonism as a pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses. Psychologically, it is “the doctrine holding that behavior is motivated by the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.”
We have become a society of pleasure seekers and pain avoiders. One of the works of the flesh in Galatians 5:20 is witchcraft. This word is translated from the Greek word, pharmakeia, from which we get our word pharmacy. This word means medication. In both the 9th and 18th chapters of Revelation we see the same Greek word used. God judges Babylon, the name used for the reprobate nations of these last days for their preoccupation with drugs.
We do not like pain, physical or emotional and feel the need to anesthetize ourselves. We seek pleasure and avoid pain.
Today we see consumerism and materialism and hedonism in the local church. But there is one other observation that can be made when doing an examination on the local church; the local church has become a needs-driven entity.
Some of you who have taken courses in psychology have no doubt been introduced to Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a theory in psychology that Abraham Maslow proposed in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation.
His theory contends that as humans meet 'basic needs', they seek to satisfy successively 'higher needs' that occupy a set hierarchy. For example at the bottom of his pyramid of needs there are the physiological needs like air, food, water, sex and sleep. If these needs are met then humans set out to obtain the security needs such as a roof over one’s head and employment. When security needs are met people are free to seek to fulfill their need for love in the form of friendship, family and sexual intimacy. Moving up the pyramid there is the need for esteem and then what Maslow calls self-actualization.
In days gone by, God was one’s air, food and water.
God was one’s security in the form of a roof over one’s head and job.
God was one’s friend and lover.
God was one’s esteem.
In the past one found that God was his or her delight and one was “actualized” in Him.
The psalmist David writes in Psalm 18:
Psa 18:1 I will love You, O LORD, my strength.
Psa 18:2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psa 18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.
But today the average person who attends church doesn’t even know where Psalm 18 is let alone knows what it says. So they live fretting about what they’re going to eat and what they’re going to drink and what they’re going to put on. (Matthew 6:31)
In What About Bob, a movie that my wife and I like to watch over and over again, Bob Wiley, a neurotic psyche patient played by Bill Murray, chases his doctor around because of his gross dependency on therapeutic counseling. In one scene, he begs his doctor, who is trying to get some vacation with his family, to have a session with him. When his doctor declines, Bob whines in classic Bill Murray action, “I need; I need; gimmie, gimmie, gimmie.”
In most churches across this great land, people come to church with needs. They have physical needs, emotional and spiritual needs. The problem occurs when people come to church with needs and expect the pastor to meet them.
“His preaching did not move me.”
“The messages that he selects do not connect with where I am at in life.”
“He is taking our church in a direction that I do not feel comfortable with.”
“He has had other people over to his house for dinner but not me and my family.”
“I went to the church for help with my eviction notice and they said no.”
“I was sick and missed church the last two Sunday’s and didn’t even get a call.”
“I was in the hospital and the pastor did not see me not once.”
Lastly, what we see today in the church is the expectation people have to be entertained. Entertainment is the pastime of America.
People today need a diversion from the rat race of life. They need a distraction from the “dog eat dog” world at work; an activity where they can just chill and relax—this activity of course is watching TV.
Don’t turn me off right here and think that I will be getting on your case about watching TV. I love to watch TV. When we get my tax refund, after we give our offering, we might take some money and upgrade our TV in the family room to a flat screen.
The point I want to make is that many of the same people who kick off their shoes at home to watch TV, leave their homes on Sunday morning to “Watch Church.”
The same people who say, “That was a good movie!” will say “That was a good sermon!” When they finish watching TV they cut it off and when they finish “watching church” they go home.
It is the same thing for the many who come to church to get their “praise on” and hear something encouraging and then go home until the next Sunday.
That is what we see when we perform an examination of the local church today.
What does the Bible say? Diagnosis
In our first installment of this series, Pastor John taught how a plural leadership was one of God’s solutions for this problem. God never meant for one man, a superstar pastor, to meet everyone’s needs.
God’s solution was to appoint elders (plural) in the local church to teach the Word, pray and oversee the ministry and deacons to meet the physical and material needs of the local church.
But plural leadership is not the total solution. The balance of this solution to this problem is also found in the Scriptures. In fact, if you have plugged into a LIFE Group you may have already been introduced to this solution. Let’s look at our text.
1 Cor 12:12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
The church isn’t a building; it is a body. Just like the human body has parts, the body of Christ has, “many members” and each of these members together form one body, the body of Christ.
1 Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body; whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
The moment you turned away from your sin and trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the Bible says the Holy Spirit baptized or immersed you into this body. Your nationality did not matter or the color of your skin or state in life—when you gave your life to Jesus, you were placed into this body, the body of Christ.
1 Cor 12:14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
If you are in the body you are not alone in the body, you are connected to others.
1 Cor 12:15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
1 Cor 12:16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
1 Cor 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
1 Cor 12:18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
If you are a Christian, you are a member of this body and have a specific function to perform. In other words, no one is insignificant. Everyone has something to contribute. God had a predetermined plan for you in the body and placed you in this body as it pleased Him.
1 Cor 12:19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
Here Paul is saying that all the members of the body are important. If the body was just a hand or a leg or a neck or an eyeball, it wouldn’t be much of a body—it would be a monster. All the members of the body are needed to make one body.
1 Cor 12:20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
1 Cor 12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
1 Cor 12:22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
1 Cor 12:23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty,
1 Cor 12:24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
1 Cor 12:25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
Here is our point. The pastors are just one part of the body. The deacons are just one part of the body. It takes all the members of the body to care for one another. Paul says at the end of verse 25 that “the members of the body should have the same care from one another.”
What does this mean? It means that the body should be taking care of itself. Hezekiah Walker’s lyrics in his song, I Need You to Survive are biblical, “I need you; You need me; We're all a part of God's body;
Stand with me; Agree with me; We're all a part of God's body. It is his will that every need be supplied
You are important to me, I need you to survive.”
When it comes to the human body, a person stepping on a sharp object would initiate the reflex action through the creation of a stimulus, within specialized sense receptors located in the skin tissue of the foot. The resulting stimulus would be transmitted through sensory neurons to the spinal cord. This stimulus is usually processed by an interneuron to create an immediate response to pain by initiating a motor response which is acted upon by muscles of the leg, retracting the foot away from the object. This retraction would occur as the pain sensation is arriving in the brain which would process a more cognitive evaluation of the situation.
In other words, if you stepped on a piece of sharp glass with your barefoot, you would yell “Ouch!” or something more vulgar depending on your spiritual orientation and then you would quickly move your foot.
How do we know when there is trouble in the body of Christ? Is there an automatic reflex action that responds to pain and brings about a reaction? I believe that in one sense there are the promptings of the Holy Spirit to these kinds of situations.
Outside of the ministry of the Holy Spirit, when it comes to the people we are connected to in the Body of Christ, we do not have an “autoreceptor”; we do not have a “reflex action.” So how do we know when there is pain or trouble in the body? We talk to one another. We ask questions. We speak to one another.
Today we often ask people “How are you?” without ever waiting for their answer. “How are you?” has become nothing more than a salutation or greeting. “Hey man. What’s happening?”
This is the kind of “fellowship” that goes on Sunday after Sunday in churches everywhere. We see each other on Sundays and during our greeting time we say “Hi” or ask “How are you doing?” but really do not have the time to converse at length so we answer, “Hi” in return or say superficial things like, “Fine!” or spiritual responses like, “God is good!”
This is not biblical fellowship. What happens is that year after year of Sunday services do not produce the growth and fruit in the life of the Christian that God intends. God wants his people to talk to one another:
Eph 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
Eph 5:20 giving thanks always for all things (this means we are sharing with one another) to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Eph 5:21 submitting to one another in the fear of God (this means we are exhorting and admonishing one another)
Eph 4:25 Therefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another.
1 Pet 4:10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
1 Pet 4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
James says in the fifth chapter of his letter that you need to “confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.”
* It is difficult to speak to one another if we are not spending time with one another.
* It is difficult to give thanks for all things together if we are not sharing with one another.
* It is difficult to submit to one another is we are not encouraging one another and warning one another.
And the truth of the matter is that you and I will not do these things unless we are intentional in our efforts.
This is why the writer of Hebrews says, “Do not forsake assembling together at the appointed fellowship times.” (Heb 10:24-25)
These things will not happen unless the local church provides these kinds of environments for it to happen.
Some churches are content with just crowding them in on Sundays. They are content with just making sure the offering meets the budget. But people do not grow in their faith by sitting for one or two hours in the pews, singing a few songs and listening to some good preaching.
If you have trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior you are a member of a body composed of other believers. Each one of us has a function. Each of us has a job and a purpose in the body.
If your lungs or liver, heart or pancreas gets sick and does not get better, your body is going to get sick and possibly die. The body of Christ, especially in the U.S.A. today is impotent because many Christians are not functioning according to the assignment God has given them in the body.
Many of us are familiar with Romans 12 where Paul writes, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (vs. 1-2)
Many of us are not as familiar with what Paul writes in the following verses that is definitely tied to verses one and two: For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function…”
Again Paul says to all his readers, “Do not think of yourselves more highly than you ought to think …because there are many members in the body and not all the members have the same function.”
“Highly” is the Greek word, huperphroneo, hoop-er-fron-eh'-o; which means “to esteem oneself too much.”
In other words, do not think that you are more important than anyone else because you are just a part of a body that has other members who all work together for a specific purpose.
Rom 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,
Rom 12:5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
Rom 12:7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;
Rom 12:8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Rom 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
Rom 12:10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;
Rom 12:11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
Rom 12:12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Rom 12:13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.
You and I cannot do these things on Sunday. It is obvious from this passage and others that body life is an activity that cannot be restricted to the two hour Sunday worship service.
What are we seeing today? Busyness has pervaded the flock and the sheep are wandering aimlessly here and there.
The lives of many are saturated. They are concerned with too much. Like Jesus says to Martha in Luke 10:41, church folk are “worried and troubled about many things.” There are too many things to think about and do.
The circumstances of life that used to be small and insignificant now seems to be gigantic and earth-shattering. Many in the church need to take a dose of Jesus’ encouragement in Matthew 6:
Mat 6:25 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Mat 6:30 "Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Mat 6:31 "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
Mat 6:32 "For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Mat 6:33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
What does the Bible say? The Bible says that those who have trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are immersed or baptized along with others in the Body of Christ. There are many members in this body, each having differing functions but all working together for a common purpose. I’ve mentioned one of those purposes today and that is to care for one another in the body.
However, there are others, one of which is to reach outside of ourselves to others who are not part of the body—this is called evangelism. Pastor Ken dealt with that last time.
How does it apply to our church? Prescription
As the elders scan the membership roster of our church, it is clear that many of our brothers and sisters are caught up in the rat race of life. Many of our member’s lives are saturated, even choked by the cares of this life.
Though we have surpassed the 50% threshold for participation in LIFE Groups, the downside of this statistic is that around 50% of us are not involved. Even less than 50% of people are involved in ministry at our church.
Why do we care whether or not you are involved in ministry or with a LIFE Group? See if you can answer this question after hearing the following passage of Scripture.
1 Pet 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
1 Pet 4:8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."
1 Pet 4:9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
1 Pet 4:10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
1 Pet 4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
And another…
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:39 "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
Acts 2:40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation."
Acts 2:41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
Acts 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Acts 2:43 Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
Acts 2:44 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common,
Acts 2:45 and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.
Acts 2:46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
Acts 2:47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
It is obvious from Scripture that God says that Christians ought to spend time together. Christians ought to act like family. The concept of “family” is rapidly disappearing from this culture.
The U.S. Bureau of the Census has defined a family as "two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption, who reside together."
As Christians we are related by birth. Peter says we are “born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever…” (1 Peter 1:23)
As Christians we are related by marriage. The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ says, “Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” (Rev 19:7)
As Christians we are related by adoption. Paul says in Eph 1:4-5, “just as God the Father chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will…”
We are a body. We are a family. We are related to one another and called in fellowship with one another.
This fellowship is both positional and practical. You and I can’t do anything to fellowship better positionally but we are charged to do everything we can to fellowship better practically.
Again, the Sunday service is not the best environment for this to happen.
Some of you may have already come to learn that we call the Sunday service a Foyer Environment. This is where you meet people, many times for the first time.
But you do not have intimate conversations in the foyer. You may talk with someone you have met for the first time in the foyer but when you want to make a friend, you invite them into the living room to sit and talk.
Webster’s Dictionary describes the living room as “a room in a home, with sofas, chairs, etc., used for social activities, entertaining guests, etc.”
When guests arrive and are welcomed into your home, you invite them into the living room. Everyone finds a comfortable place to sit, and the interaction begins.
At our church, this is where you connect with people like yourself. The Foyer Environment is where you meet people. The Living Room is smaller and more interactive than the Foyer Environment. These gatherings offer genuine opportunity to begin friendships...just like the living room in your home.
* For students in grades 3 through 12 there is StudentQuest.
* For young adults, our Young Adult Fellowship is a safe haven away from the temptations of the club and bar.
* For men there is RPM, a once-a-month breakfast hangout.
* LightHouse is a once a month event that provides light and hope to women in all seasons of life.
* A gathering that is designed to warm your spirit before the worship service is called, AromaHouse.
When you get to know a person well enough, the next time they visit with you don’t seat them in your living room, you sit with them at the kitchen table with some coffee or tea. This is the environment in which you begin to learn people and have them come to know and understand you.
When my mother comes over to my house, she rarely sits in our living room. She hardly ever sits in our family room. She takes her seat at our kitchen table. When I visit my mom I do not sit and talk with her in her living room, we sit and talk in her kitchen.
The kitchen is where lasting friendships are made and nurtured and that’s the kind of environment we are striving for in our L.I.F.E. Groups.
L.I.F.E. Groups are where people meet regularly for Bible study and prayer, and commit to accountability, friendship and support. They are the safe place to open your heart, share your life and ask the tough questions. L.I.F.E. Groups are the place where ministry happens at our church.
We have environments that are designed to do different things.
The worship service is not the environment designed to deepen relationships in the body. You often meet people for the first time in the worship service. In the worship service you ought to be focused on God, worshipping and listening for Him to speak to you.
However, the LIFE Group is the environment designed to deepen your relationship with people. For this purpose, the LIFE Group is considered a kitchen environment.
We don’t expect people to jump from the foyer to the kitchen. That goes against the grain of human nature and how relationships naturally develop and grow.
GraceWay’s prescription is to encourage your family, friends and coworkers to enter GraceWay Church at the Foyer and meet someone.
We hope that they would in turn feel comfortable enough to attend a living room environment such as StudentQuest, YAF, RPM, LightHouse or AromaHouse and begin a friendship or two.
When friendships develop, your family member, friend or coworker may feel comfortable enough to sign up for the next LIFE Group in your community, which is a kitchen table environment.
The whole point of this message is to teach you the physiology of the church. We are members of one another. Each of us has a function to perform in order for the body to be built up.
The Sunday morning service is just the beginning of how God intends us to relate to one another. If you and I are going to spend the rest of eternity in heaven together, we may as well begin to relate to one another right now.
We’ve got a job to do—people around us are dying in their sins and need to hear the Good News concerning what Christ has done for them. Jesus has returned to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father but has left His body, the church, to be His hands and feet.
* We are His hands to touch the world around us.
* We are His feet to go where He may lead.
* We are His eyes to see the need in others.
* We are His voice to tell of His return. (Jeff Wood)
A Pastor Dixon wrote, “We are His hands to touch those in need. We are His feet to travel to those that need help. We are His voice to encourage those that are discouraged.”
