Episode 5 · 1 Corinthians 12:14-20
The Potluck Body of Christ
A post-baptism riverside potluck. Fifty desserts arrive. Nobody brought plates. A picture of why the body needs different gifts.
Pundayschool · Passage · New Testament
1 Corinthians: devotionals and study guides
Paul's letter to a gifted but divided church in Corinth. Chapter 12 holds its most famous picture of church life, one body with many parts, and Pundayschool has built two episodes out of that one chapter.
In short
1 Corinthians is Paul's letter to a gifted but divided church in Corinth, and chapter 12 holds its most famous picture of church life: one body, many parts. Pundayschool has covered two passages from 1 Corinthians, both from that chapter: 1 Corinthians 12:14-20 in The Potluck Body of Christ, and 1 Corinthians 12:27 in The Sunday Match. Both come with a free devotional and small group study guide.
The passages
Episode 1 · 1 Corinthians 12:27
The Sunday Match
Church culture, refereed like a football match. Worship-camera transformations. Parking-lot theology. The one that started it.
One verse to hold
"Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."
1 Corinthians 12:27, NIV
Questions people ask
What is 1 Corinthians about?
It is Paul's letter to the church in Corinth, a congregation rich in gifts and rich in arguments. Paul works through their divisions, their worship, and their questions, and in chapter 12 gives the picture that holds it all together: the church as one body with many different parts.
What does 'the body of Christ' mean in 1 Corinthians 12?
Paul says the church is Christ's body: many parts, one body, every part needed. A foot cannot resign for not being a hand, and an eye cannot tell the hand it is not needed. Verse 27 makes it personal: you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Why does Pundayschool have two episodes from the same chapter?
Because the chapter makes two distinct points and each earned its own joke. The Sunday Match (12:27) is about nobody getting to just spectate: church was never meant to be a spectator sport. The Potluck Body of Christ (12:14-20) is about the body needing its different, unglamorous parts: fifty desserts and no plates.