The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 88 : For the Perfecting, Equipping of the Saints  (4:12)

TO THE ‘PERFECTING, EQUIPPING’ OF THE SAINTS  –  FOR THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY  –  ‘MINISTRY’  =  ‘DEACONING’  –  THE LORD CHOSE TO USE MEN AS SERVANTS TO DO HIS WORK  –  FOR THE BUILDING UP OF THE ‘BODY OF CHRIST’  –  THE METAPHOR OF THE BODY  –  CHURCH GROWTH ACCORDING TO THE APOSTLE PAUL  –  “THE PROGRESSION OF GOD’S PATTERN: EQUIPPING, SERVICE, BUILDING UP