Ephesians 4:1-16:
"Therefore,
I a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of
your calling, for you have been called by God. Always be humble and
gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's
faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves
united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. For there
is one and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious
hope for the future.
There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all.
However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. That is why the Scriptures say,
"When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to his people."
Notice
that it says "he ascended." This clearly means that Christ also
descended to our lowly world. And the same one who descended is the one
who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that he might fill the
entire universe with himself.
Now
these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the
prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their
responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the
church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to
such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be
mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of
Christ.
Then we will
no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown about
by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people
try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead,
we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more
like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the
whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special
work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy
and growing and full of love."
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
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