The Headless Body

“And hath…gave Him to be the head over all things to the church. Which is His body…Christ is the head of the church: and He is the saviour of the body... And He is the head of the body, the church…”~ Eph. 1:22-23; 5:23; Col. 1:18

I find in my fellowship with thinking saints the conversation sooner or later gets around to the state of the Church of our day. Their concern is the cause of its apparent lifelessness, its anemic condition. Its preaching, praying, singing, and testimony has the breath of God gone out of them.

Having lived long enough to observe the change of what we have come from to what we have come to, I am of the opinion that at the root of the problem there is basically just one explanation. 

We have decapitated the Head from the Body! We have severed Christ, our Head, from His Body, the Church.

I remember my Kentucky born and bred grandmother wringing the head off the chickens we were to feast on that day. She would take its head in her hand and begin to rotate it till the head parted from the body. I remember the headless creature would run helter-skelter, bumping into every object in its way having no direction or means of knowing where it was headed or what to do. 

It is an incontestable fact that when we lose our oneness, our identification, our union with Christ, we too will have the characteristics of the aforementioned story.

We will lose our victory, joy, peace, grace, and discernment along with a host of other essentials it takes to live the Christian Life. You might say we forfeit all that is near and dear to a soul.

Jesus’ warning His followers was, “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

by an Old Disciple

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