{"id":16144,"date":"2026-06-17T20:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16144"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:51:33","slug":"contributing-to-the-body-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16144\/contributing-to-the-body-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributing to the Body of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey Pastor John \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was going\u00a0to say this in the meeting tonight,\u00a0but didn&#8217;t get around to it!\u00a0\u00a0Today I was working on some things and just talking to Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0I heard Him tell me &#8220;You don&#8217;t eat unless you contribute.&#8221;\u00a0 When I heard this,\u00a0the first thing I thought was, &#8220;Well,\u00a0yeah, that&#8217;s right;\u00a0we need to contribute.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0When Uncle Billy was testifying\u00a0tonight,\u00a0I was able to learn more than\u00a0just\u00a0what he was testifying about.\u00a0\u00a0I had what the\u00a0Lord had told me earlier in the back of my mind,\u00a0and tonight,\u00a0He really showed me what He meant.\u00a0\u00a0By Uncle Billy testifying,\u00a0he was contributing to the body,\u00a0and if God allowed us to, we were able to eat and apply it onto our hearts.\u00a0\u00a0But it doesn&#8217;t\u00a0end there.\u00a0 Because\u00a0Uncle Billy shared his testimony, when I go through a time of trouble, I can remember what he said and let it motivate me to have the attitude Uncle Billy did.\u00a0\u00a0When my trial passes, if I handle it right, I will have a testimony to share with others and contribute to the body of Christ.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>It is a wonderful never-ending cycle,\u00a0if everyone does their part.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0It showed me that our testimonies are not only for us, but for everyone in the Body of Christ.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>We have to contribute and fulfill our part in the body of Christ;\u00a0if we don&#8217;t,\u00a0it just won&#8217;t work!<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Everything about tonight felt so good and just full of life!\u00a0\u00a0We don&#8217;t need to worry if we&#8217;ve got God!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Grace C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">P.S. Sorry if that was confusing with all the words, I was just trying to get what was in my head down \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John \ud83d\ude42 I was going\u00a0to say this in the meeting tonight,\u00a0but didn&#8217;t get around to it!\u00a0\u00a0Today I was working on some things and just talking to Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0I heard Him tell me &#8220;You don&#8217;t eat unless you contribute.&#8221;\u00a0 When I heard this,\u00a0the first thing I thought was, &#8220;Well,\u00a0yeah, that&#8217;s right;\u00a0we need to contribute.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0When Uncle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16145,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions\/16145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}