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#9) Ephesians 4:12
"… to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up."
The Church
Christ gave us the Church to give us unity, encouragement, and maturity
in the faith (verse 13). We are to exercise our spiritual
gifts (verse 11), and help each other to know and be sure of what we
believe. We're built up through the equipping and the
encouragement of our fellow Christians. This is why He gave
us a diversity of gifts, and this should be the goal of the
Church.
The Church should be what promotes us out of being infants in the
faith, "tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by
every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in
their deceitful scheming" (verse 14). Instead, we need to
"grow
up" in the faith (verse 15), and "build up" each other (verse
16).
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