Nonetheless, when the poorest of them, the Palestinian Jewish Christians in Jerusalem, were faced with famine, the others made enormous financial sacrifice to help them. Yet we share even more. He looks upon the congregation as a symphony orchestra. He never thinks of himself as the star soloist, everyone else in the congregation simply a spectator. Everyone has a part.
Music is made only as everyone shares in the effort of music-making.
An orchestra that doesn't have piccolos and bassoons and triangles doesn't make the music it is meant to. To the extent that it doesn't it is both ineffective and unattractive. There is certainly a place, necessarily a place, for piccolos and bassoons and triangles. The gospel isn't simply food for you and me to consume. It is also food for our children, for newcomers to our congregation, for people not yet in our congregation but on their way here and therefore known only to God, for people on the other side of the world whom we shall never see yet who need feeding as much as we.