Ephesians Part 7: Unity and Maturity in the Body of Christ || Dave Pike

Vineyard Church Cardiff

Sunday 26th May, 2024 - North Site Speaker - Dave Pike

Dave takes us through chapter 4 of Ephesians, in which Paul impresses on us the importance of unity in the Body of Christ. Dave then relates Paul's teaching about the five-fold ministry gifts that the Lord has granted to the Church - Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.

Ephesians 4v1-7

1) As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2) Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3) Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4) There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5) one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6) one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7) But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.

Ephesians 4v11-16

11) So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12) to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13) until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14) Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15) Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16) From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. ------- Recorded at North Site - 26May2024