What is a Body For?

Pastor Sean Palmer begins our new series around "The Body" by asking the question "What is a Body for?" Pastor Sean explains that the body is the mechanism to express our soul and that we would enact in our bodies what God is doing in our souls.

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Scripture & References

Psalm 8:3-5

When I gaze to the skies and meditate on Your creation
on the moon, stars, and all You have made,

I can’t help but wonder why You care about mortals—
sons and daughters of men—
specks of dust floating about the cosmos.

But You placed the son of man just beneath God
and honored him like royalty, crowning him with glory and honor.



Pslam 144:3

O Eternal One, what is man, that You even care to know him?
or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?


Genesis 1:25-27

God: Now let Us conceive a new creation—humanity—made in Our image, fashioned according to Our likeness. And let Us grant them authority over all the earth—the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, the domesticated animals and the small creeping creatures on the earth.

So God did just that. He created humanity in His image, created them male and female.



“In the ancient world it was rulers, emperors, and pharaohs who were held to be in the image of God. So what Genesis was saying was that we are all royalty.”

— Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

1 Corinthians 6:19

Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who comes from God and dwells inside of you? You do not own yourself.



“If our bodies don’t really mean anything, then we will act as though we can assign them meaning at random. We will act, or others will act, as though our bodies – free of real meaning – can be used, in a given moment, for nothing but pleasure or nothing but power or nothing but selfishness. We will act as though bodies can be disregarded or discounted. We will act as though bodies can be used as commodities, bought and sold on the
free market.”

— Beth Felker Jones, Faithful