And His gifts were varied; He Himself appointed and
gave to us some to be apostles (special messengers),
some prophets (inspired preachers and expounders),
some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling
missionaries), some pastors (shepherds of His flock)
and teachers.
His intention was the perfecting and full equipping
of the saints (His consecrated people), that they should
do the work of ministering toward building up Christ’s
body (the church).
That it might develop until we all attain oneness in the faith
and in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and
accurate knowledge of the Son of God, that we might arrive
at real maturity and completeness which is nothing less
than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection, the
measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the
completeness found in Him.
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro
between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every
changing wind of doctrine, the prey of cunning and
cleverness of unscrupulous men, in every shifting form
of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.
Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth. Enfolded
in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into
Him Who is the Head, Christ.
For because of Him the whole body, the church, in all
its various parts, closely joined and firmly knit together
by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when
each part is working properly, grows to full maturity,
building itself up in love.
(Ephesians 4.11-16).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!