Week 1: Spare Parts

IKEA is a global furniture giant that figured out how to get you to build your own furniture with a tiny Allen wrench. It's the only tool in a box full of hundreds of parts. That also amazes me – how many parts go into building even the smallest of bookshelves. And it turns out, those parts – down to the smallest and most random – all have an integral role to play in the structure. Local churches are like that. Jesus is building His church, building us, and we are all parts of that structure; we all have a integral part to play. As all the pieces build into one another, we discover that none of us are spare parts.