where are all the eyeballs and gotees?

This message is for all the 20 and 30 somethings that have decided church life is not for them. 

There are some bodies walking around our country missing some eyeballs, gotees, lips, ears, arms and legs.  If you are someone who knows Jesus, really knows Him, His body needs you.  One of the reasons I suspect you dropped out was that the church you were a part of, either growing up, or briefly as an adult, offended, bored, alienated, pushed, or became irrelevant to you in some way.  However, what you failed to realize for some reason, maybe not your own fault, was that leaving permanently was like taking the eyes and ears of that church with it.  Especially if you left because you saw or heard things that seemed wrong, there is a good chance that church even lost its mouth.  If you had stayed and spoken of those things that bothered you, a humble body that knew it needed wise words might have listened.  If not, no doubt the disease might have gotten worse and they may have smacked themselves in their own mouth.  Prophetical people don't exist in a vacuum, God puts them among other sinful saints.  That's the deal.  But if parts of the body get up and leave, that body is left without a gift to it, and it weakens.  If the mouth is cut off, perhaps God wants to give a mouth or eye to some other body in need of it.  A  transplant.
     You may think that they don't need you and you can get along without them.  Can an eyeball and mouth make a body?  No.  They die.  So if you have found like minded people you now hang out with, good chance that you are missing some key parts, like legs and hair and feet.  Who knows.  But likely all the parts are not represented.  You need the body and it needs you.  "Well, I ain't goin' back."  Fine.  Jesus wants you simply to encourage other believers and be part of a body that is operating like a body.  Read Hebrews 10 and 1 Corinthians 12.  Start a new body that follows Jesus.  Change what you didn't like and follow Him together.   But you will probably need some people that are different than you and who do or say things that make you feel uncomfortable.  Rebuilding Frankenstein had to hurt.  But, at least he was alive.
      We need our young voices, our young eyes and ears.  Don't leave if you are presently part of a body.  Learn to speak up and make those around you listen.  If your body doesn't like a mouth that says too much, try to whisper.  But don't try to become a toe; God made you as a mouth.  Same for any other part.  Our old bodies need to change, no doubt.  And we need the eyesight Jesus is giving you about what the world is like now to change in the right ways.  We need your sensitivity (nerves) and your insight.  We need you to be a mouth, or an elbow, or the feet willing to go places that older people won't go. 
     This is important.  Jesus' body on earth needs to be whole.  We need you.

     20 or 30 somethings, please stop the bloodshed; build a body or join one as a transplant.  Please.