Organic Church Functionality

Finding function in the body metaphor

By: Rick Spinos

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The reality that rampant dysfunction exists in evangelical churches today should be no mystery when one recognizes that churches typically fail to function according to the metaphor of Christ as the head of the body. Through this metaphor we can observe how dysfunction can be avoided by cultivating several types of functionality that God included in the human body. This book outlines five types of functionality that operate in the human body releasing it to fully express the character of the head: unified functionality, distinctive functionality, systemic functionality, expressive functionality, and directional functionality.
Since the Holy Spirit inspired New Testament writers to employ the metaphor of the human body to teach the church how to interact with Christ as the head, one can conclude that God created the human body to serve as a dynamic illustration of how it should work. Church dysfunction can be avoided by careful consideration of how the human body works.