The Wheel
I want you to picture a wheel in your mind. It can be a wagon wheel or a bicycle wheel. It doesn’t matter as long as it has a hub, spokes, and a rim. In this picture, you see the hub in the center with spokes attached to it. These spokes extend outward to the rim. The rim is the part of the wheel that touches the ground and leaves a mark.
The spokes are closest to each other where they attach to the hub. This point is important to note. Each spoke is equally important because they all support the rim. With the support of the spokes, the rim rolls smoothly and leaves a good impression on the earth.
Now, in your mind, I want you to call this wheel “The Church Wheel.” The Hub in the center of your Church Wheel is God. This is because God has to be at the center of every Church. The spokes are the people of the Church. They are close to each other when they are close to God. The rim is the ministry or the work of the Church. The purpose of “The Church Wheel” is to impact, change, and leave a good impression on the world. If it does this, it will achieve its ultimate goal, which is to glorify God.
Here are some important things to remember. One. God is the center of the Church. If He is not, then it is not a church. Two. Church people are close to each other when they are close to God. They are close to God when they are close to each other. Three. Each person in the church is of equal importance. A wheel cannot roll smoothly if some spokes are longer than others. Nor can it roll smoothly if some spokes are missing.
The bottom line is this. As children of God, we are commanded to go into all the world and change the world by making disciples. We do this by drawing close to God and closer to each other. We support each other as we reach out and impact the world with the good news of Jesus. Brothers and sisters, we have a job to do, so come on, Let’s Roll.
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
Email-douglas@pavementendsministry.com
“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. 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. For in fact the body is not one member but many.
If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 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? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.”
https://bible.com/bible/114/1co.12.12-20.NKJV
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Beautiful. Hope you’re doing well Uncle Doug. I forwarded this onto the pastor of a new church I’ve found and like. Keep fighting the good fight.