INTRO: Ephesians 4:1-16, the first section of the practical section of this letter deals with unity in the church. In verses 1-6 we have the call to unity and in verses 7-11 we have God's method of maintaining this unity. First, He provided gifted men. Through these we first got the NT and then those who were gifted to bring this message to the lost in other places. Once churches were set up, He provides pastors and teachers. And the reason for these gifted people is ultimately to finish the believers, that is to perfect them or make them like Christ. And God will do this through the ministry of pastors and teachers and they will edify or build up the believers with the aim of perfecting them. All this, as I outline the passage is God's method of bringing about unity in the church. Now in all this, God has an aim and we find it in verse 13 which says: 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; It is this aim we want to explore in this message. In view in this verse is the entire pastoral ministry. Well, verse 13 is an important verse regarding the effort today to bring churches together and we will get right to the verse and the aim it presents.
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