a kaleidoscope of Christians

Do we really believe that Christians are each unique, gifted uniquely by God, or do we picture them as more or less all the same?

Read 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 and 20-31

1 Corinthians 12
14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
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?
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?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?"

Obviously, God does not picture us as more or less the same.

When we think of the heros of the faith, who immediately comes to mind? The apostles, like Peter and Paul, Polycarp, Latimer, Ridley, too many to name.

But what about the unsung heros? Jesus says that even the very hairs on our heads are numbered. (Luke 12:7) So we know that He knows who they are, many of whom lost their lives for His sake and thus found them for all eternity.

More to come...