Easy Version: the church?

I know the last post was a long one, but I was meditating on Ephesians 4, and decided to simplify it all.

"Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love." - Eph. 4:15-16

We are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ...
In everything we do, God is transforming us into the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29). The beginning of the race God has set before us is salvation. The end isn't heaven, but it is us transformed into the image of Christ. So as a group of believers, we are also being transformed--growing--into becoming Christ. We do this not just on Sundays and Wednesdays, but every day. Every day you are a member of the local church to which God has called you.

From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love...
- When each part is working properly, the body grows.
--Are you doing your part to strengthen or cause atrophy to the body of Christ?

So what is the church to do when one part is not working properly?

2 Thess. 3--verses to point out
"Now we command you, brother, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us..." (v. 6)
"For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies..." (v. 11)
"If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother." (v. 14-15)

Paul clearly states that the Thessalonians were to have nothing to do with the person who was feeding off those around him. When a useless part of our body is taking nutrients from every other part, it is cut off so that the body can function. As hard and strange as it seems to us, we should hold each other accountable and do the same.

So--are you being idle or are you doing your part in the body of Christ?