Ephesians 4:11-16

Jesus calls each of us to a task that will be used to build up His body, the Church. Our response will be the deciding factor in our accomplishing His call on our life. The biggest obstacle is to get over our inabilities and to rely on His ability to get the job done.

Gifted leaders are responsible for the equipping of the saints; the well-equipped saints do the work of ministry; and the result is that the body of Christ is built up. The final goal is maturity, truth, and love. Children are gullible, vulnerable, and easily victimized. The church needs to work diligently at moving babes in Christ on to maturity. Speaking the truth in love suggests that all that believers say or do should be honest and true, and said or done in a loving manner.

Ephesians 4:11-16

11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.