CALLED AND EMPOWERED BY CHRIST, Ephesians 4: 1-7, 11-16

    (Passages of Scripture taken from Ephesians 4
     are offered without  comment, at  this time, for 
     your consideration.)

   "I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech
you to walk worthy of the calling with which 
    you were called,
with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuf-
    fering, bearing with one another in love, 
 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in 
     the bond of peace."  (vs. 1-3)

     "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you
were called in one hope of your calling;
     one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
  one God and Father of all, who is above all, 
     and through all, and in you all,
  But to each one of us grace was given accor-
     ding to the measure of Christ's gift."  (vs. 4-7)

  "And He, Himself gave some to be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and 
   teachers,
 for the equipping of the saints for the work of 
   ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
 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;"  (vs. 11-13)

   "That we should no longer be children, tossed to
and fro and carried about with every wind of doc-
  trine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning crafti-
ness of deceitful plotting,
     but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in
all things into Him who is the head--Christ--
     from whom the whole body, joined and knit
together by what every joint supplies, according to
  the effective working by which every part does it's
share, causes growth of the body for the edifying
  of itself in love."  (vs. 14-16)

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