The Needy and the Needed

Although these two potential labels—those who are “needy” and those who are “needed”—in a church community seem at first dichotomous , they’re not. They’re complimentary. More than that, in fact. In Romans 12:1-8—this week’s Epistle reading—St. Paul makes the emphatic argument that the only ones who are truly needed in a church community are the truly needy.