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    Sermon Eph 4 11-12

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    The document discusses Ephesians 4:11-12 and the roles that Christ gives to the church. It states that: 1) Christ calls and gives gifts to the church, including apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip God's people for ministry and build up the church. 2) These roles serve different functions - apostles and prophets laid the foundation, evangelists spread the gospel, and pastors and teachers continue equipping God's people. 3) The purpose of Christ giving these gifts is to equip the members of the church for serving God and one another, which leads to the strengthening and growth of the church.

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    The document discusses Ephesians 4:11-12 and the roles that Christ gives to the church. It states that: 1) Christ calls and gives gifts to the church, including apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip God's people for ministry and build up the church. 2) These roles serve different functions - apostles and prophets laid the foundation, evangelists spread the gospel, and pastors and teachers continue equipping God's people. 3) The purpose of Christ giving these gifts is to equip the members of the church for serving God and one another, which leads to the strengthening and growth of the church.

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    Sermon Eph 4 11-12

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    CALLED TO SERVE Prophets are “occasional organs of inspira-

    tion” (cf. Acts 21:10, 11), when the New


    TEXT: EPHESIANS 4:11-12 Testament was in the process of being writ-
    ten. Together with the apostles they are
    INTRODUCTION described as “the church’s foundation” (cf.
    2:20).
    Proposition—The Lord calls and gives to His church Evangelists, lower rank than apostles and
    people endowed with gifts to equip His people to prophets, are “traveling missionaries,” occa-
    serve in ministry for the building up of the church. sionally serving as apostolic delegates. Phi-
    lip and Timothy are numbered among them.
    MAIN POINTS
    While the above three categories served up
    1 The Lord calls and gives (v.11) to the time when the Bible, both OT and
    NT, was completed, the Lord continued to
    1.1 The ascended Lord gave what He had re- give to the church Pastors and (even)
    ceived teachers. They minister and teach the
    members of Christ’s body. This is ongoing!
    The Lord gave gifts to His body, the church,
    after He had accomplished His mission.
    And the gifts were in the forms of people 2 The Lord calls for His people to serve (v.12)
    who were endowed with gifts to serve.
    2.1 The Lord’s gifts to the church are for the
    1.2 The gifts to the church are ongoing equipping of His people

    It’s never meant to limit to a certain era. The Lord called the apostles to represent
    Him on earth after His ascension to heaven.
    The Lord initially called the apostles, the Together with the prophets, they became
    Twelve and Paul, who gave to the church the foundation of the church, Christ’s body.
    the foundation of and authority over life and
    doctirne. The Lord, and the apostles, also called the
    evangelists, traveling missionaries, to bring
    the good news to new regions.
    These people were called of the Lord to lay 2.3 The Lord equips His people with the
    the foundation of the church, and to equip view of building up the church
    God’s people. When their era was over, the
    continuing work of equipping was entrusted The word “edifying” is used in house buid-
    to pastors who are also teachers. ing, hence the idea of building up and deve-
    loping.
    The Lord has no intention that His church
    remains status-quo. He has the vision of its
    2.2 The Lord equips His people to serve Him growth and strengthening, that He provides
    in the ministry (v.11b) all the equipments needed.
    The growth and strengthening of the church
    God’s people are known as saints, the call- is achieved when God’s people are equip-
    ed ones, who are called out of the world to ped and serve each other and the church.
    God.
    Through the apostles and prophets, who
    had written and completed the Bible, and CONCLUSION
    the evangelists who brought the gospel to
    the ends of the world, and the current pas- The Lord calls us to serve Him and each other in His
    tors-teachers, the Lord equips His own peo- church. We’re called to serve!
    ple for the wok of rendering service to each He provides people with endowed gifts from the time of
    other and to the church. His ascension to equip His people.
    The onus of pastors-teachers, the ongoing Through equipping and serving, His church will be built
    gifts of God to the church, is to equip God’s up and strengthened.
    flock for service through feeding and teach-
    ing the Word of God. 10/8/2008 at Carmel 9th Anniversary

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