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Swimming -- Body parts

Good Morning!  I'm hoping you're curious, so I won't delay. Swimming requires all of my body parts...those visible and those not visible...it's a total body workout.  Swimming requires all parts of me to work together to complete the strokes and propel me from start to finish of each lap I swim.  There is a specified movement or job for each part of me.  Some parts are seen and some are hidden, but all are needed. Imagine my legs trying to do the work of my arms while I'm swimming the front crawl.  Hilarious, right?!  And disastrous too!  I would be standing up and gasping for air in very short order if I tried to swim legs first.  Not only is it impossible for legs to move in the same way as arms, but I'd be swimming backwards and blind. The same is true in the body of Christ.  Christ's body, the church,  is just like the body of a swimmer.  Each part has a specified purpose, is designed to function for that purpose, and placed in the exact right po