Growing in Unity

Continuing in Ephesians 4, Pastor Sonny covers verses 11–16, discussing how God calls and appoints people to specific offices and in the process equips and molds them to fulfill those roles, and how we can know what God’s call is and trust Him to make us ready for it. Further, those called as pastors and teachers haver a responsibility to help each other and the members of the body of Christ grow in the unity of the faith, that we may all be equipped for the work of the ministry, serving in humility as Christ Himself did.

“And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 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. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 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.”
   — Ephesians 4:11-16