Built Up
- Series: Now I Walk
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Paul takes a break from giving commands on how we should live to address church unity.
Harvest Bible Chapel must be filled with people who have different gifts and different callings. Paul describes three offices that continue today: pastors, teachers and evangelists. When people fill these roles, they equip and build up the church that we may mature.
Pastor Hayden takes us through this challenging passage. We must overcome gullibility, learn to speak truth in love, embrace one another, and disciple and be discipled.
A united and diverse church is filled with believers growing more like Christ.
Scripture Passage(s): Ephesians 4:11-16
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11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds [1] and teachers, [2] 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, [3] to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 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. (ESV)
