So it's a powerful morning at nine o'clock and to the 11.45 guys welcome as well.

We're in this anchor series and the hope of the anchor series is simply this that in

the weeks or months or seasons to come that you and I will have theological touch points

in our lives so that we can stay true with God and stay sure in a changing world.

And that's not a new idea.

We begin the series by looking at this text in Ephesians 411 and this is Paul speaking.

I think the text is going to come up on the screen but look at what he says.

He's talking about how the church operates and why.

He says so Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors

and the teachers to equip his people for works of service so that the body of Christ

may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son

of God and become mature.

So that's the goal with the prophets and the evangelists and the pastors and the teachers

and the function of the church is so that all of us would become mature attaining to

the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

And here's the key part.

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.

But he goes on to say 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.

Now what does that mean to you and to me?

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