Oh, that is *absolutely* the kind of thing it's meant to be read as, and more or less what our pastor preached on, with extra relevance because we do a lot of work with the local homeless people.
It's just that (at least in the translation we use) Paul starts talking about how the "least respectable" members of the body are the ones which we "clothe in the greatest honor" I can't help thinking about body taboos and which "less respectable" body parts we are always at pains to clothe (not to mention "one member is honored and all rejoice together" which really could have come out of a particularly purple romance novel. Um.) And *then* he compares the teachers and apostles to those "less respectable" body parts ...
What denomination are you? We Lutherans have the same texts the same week every year, (with I think a three-year cycle in Old Testament readings) which have to do with where in the church year we are. Your church year should mostly be the same as ours, anyway, so it's not *that* much of a coincidence.
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It's just that (at least in the translation we use) Paul starts talking about how the "least respectable" members of the body are the ones which we "clothe in the greatest honor" I can't help thinking about body taboos and which "less respectable" body parts we are always at pains to clothe (not to mention "one member is honored and all rejoice together" which really could have come out of a particularly purple romance novel. Um.) And *then* he compares the teachers and apostles to those "less respectable" body parts ...
What denomination are you? We Lutherans have the same texts the same week every year, (with I think a three-year cycle in Old Testament readings) which have to do with where in the church year we are. Your church year should mostly be the same as ours, anyway, so it's not *that* much of a coincidence.