Are we that kind of body here? – one but many? – honouring of those people, or those parts of ourselves, which are otherwise dishonoured? Demographically our congregation is similar to Australia, a white majority with a significant, increasing and valued presence of people whose ancestors were born in non-European lands. According to Paul, we need each other, because the body of Christ consists in its diversity. We need our different races and cultures and classes and genders and sexualities and abilities and sizes and shapes and colours. And we need to acknowledge where honour and respect and power and privilege lie among us so that we can lift one another up in love to be the body together.
