On paper, the entire concept behind Kingdom Hearts doesn’t sound like it should work. Square Enix, the developers responsible for crafting serious gaming narratives like the Final Fantasy series decided to create a game that would not only incorporate Disney cartoon characters like Goofy and Mickey Mouse, but would tell a story set in very unrealistic worlds like the underwater kingdom of the Little Mermaid. In anyone else’s hands, this project would have been a disaster… but the creators of the game took these distinctly different pieces and pressed them together in a way that showed respect to each of these diverse franchises while also combining them in a way that transformed them into a masterpiece.

The strength of the body of Christ is in our exceptional diversity. We are each called from different backgrounds to serve specific roles so we can accomplish unique purposes for His kingdom. We make up a beautiful tapestry made up of some broken pasts, brilliant minds, lovable leaders, and a few of us that are just a little bit “Goofy” like me… but we have all been designed to bring value to His body by combining the gifts that we’ve been given together. Let’s treat each member of His body with respect even when our approaches are a little different. Only a kingdom of unified hearts can reach souls for Him.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Romans 12:3-5

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 1 Corinthians 12:18-22

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