When we are made alive in Christ our lives shouldn’t stay the same. Everything about us should change. But that isn’t a process that happens instantly or even quickly. Instead the process of maturing in faith takes places over a lifetime, and is made possible by the different rhythms of our lives.
Adam Fix - February 12, 2017
Building Up the Body
Ephesians 4:11-16 [11] And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, [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, 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) Leaders are called to equip and build up the local church body through teaching, modeling, and oversight while the body is called to works of service: speaking the truth in love through encouragement and growing into disciple-making disciples.
