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Ephesians 4:11-14
👉Now, these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers.
👉Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.
👉This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
👉Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.
Ephesians 4:11-14 (NLT) -------------------------------------
These days, standing before a crowd or those we have gathered seems to be the breakthrough and not what they become afterwards. The chief aims of ministry have nothing to do with merely gathering people but with who and what they become through our ministry. Let this sink!
Gathering people in an era marked by gullibility can't be an achievement. People gather daily to watch their favourite comedians, musicians, and others. In ministry, we are not called to make a name by the people we gather but by fulfilling Ephesians 4:11-14.
How many men and women showcasing themselves as kingdom ministers are fulfilling the chief aims of ministry? If we were good at it as expected, we wouldn't have been dealing with the mob of church folks today who are easily deceived by anyone with a new ideology, charismatic display or interpretation of Scripture.
People can start churches today by looking at a person and describing their home or family members and what they ate before attending a meeting. Guess those who rush and submit under them! Some purported pastors. We are in trouble, brethren, but there is a solution. It is an aggressive repositioning of the fivefold ministry campaign.
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Comments
Great word Dr Etta. The purpose of the 5 fold ministry is to equip the church to do the work of the ministry. Preaching or equipping the church is not the work of the ministry. It is equipping them to do the ministry.Â
You may be called to be one of the 5 fold ministers, you have only done your job if the people you are supposed to equip, do theirs, that is, the work of trhe ministry. Declaring and bringing the Kingdom of God on earth. (Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.)
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Nothing is gained from preaching (no matter how loud, inspired, revelatory or powerful it is seemed to be, nor how big the crowd) until the people to be equipped, do what they are being equipped for.Â
Therefore your preaching needs to help people to the place of action where they know who they are in Christ and can stand strong in that authority and bring God's peace, love or power to a situation or life to change it for better and Kingdom purpose. Revealing Christ's reconciliation, redemption, revelation, revolution or transformation in spirits, minds and bodies.Â
Selah.