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    Ministry Purpose

    Connect (Ephesians 4:1-10)


    The purpose of the church is to connect people to Christ and then
    connect them into the body of Christ.

    I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling
    to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience,
    bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond
    of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope
    that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,
    who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us
    according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says, "When he ascended on
    high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." (In saying, "He ascended,"
    what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
    He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he
    might fill all things.)

    Equip (Ephesians 4:11-16)


    The purpose of the pastor is to equip the saints for their works of ministry.

    And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors 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.

    Live (Ephesians 4:17-32)


    The purpose of the saints is to live out their faith

    Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles
    do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated
    from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of
    heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy
    to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ! —
    assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in
    Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is
    corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and
    to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and
    holiness. Therefore, having put away falsehood let each one of you speak the truth
    with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do
    not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the
    thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands,
    so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk
    come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the
    occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit
    of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and
    wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
    Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ
    forgave you.

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