If We Are the Body the high note of A. A CCM song, it has an acoustic rock sound and incorporates the violin, mandolin, and accordion in its arrangement. Featuring "energetic instrumental spurts and tight melodies", the song "admonishes the church for giving preferential treatment to any one particular group over another" and questions why the church does not minister impartially. The song's chorus, which references the Christian concept of the body of Christ, asks "If we are the body, why aren't his arms reaching?/Why aren't his hands healing?/Why aren't his words teaching?/And if we are the body?/Why aren't his feet going?/Why is his love
If We Are the Body rich over the poor". "If We Are the Body" was produced by Mark A. Miller and Steven Curtis Chapman. It was recorded at Glow In The Dark Studio in Decatur, Georgia and Zoo Studio in Franklin, Tennessee. The song was engineered by Matt Goldman and Sam Hewitt. "If We Are the Body" is a song with a length of three minutes and 58 seconds. It is set in common time in the key of F minor and has a tempo of 126 beats per minute. Mark Hall's vocal range in the song spans from the low note of B to