Church life is a process of one getting mature. “Build up the church, the body of Christ” means helping the holy people – each other – in the church. We must work to prefect other holy people in the church.
Church work is about gaining (winning) other people. Building up the church, the body of Christ means helping holy people so that their faithfulness can mature. When we have a newcomer into our church, how mush do we help him or her?
So how do we mature – how do we build up the church? In verse 13 it is written, “we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord.” It means that believing in Jesus and knowing Jesus becoming one thing.
Faithfulness and knowledge always go together. When we say, “we believe,” there is no maturing if there is no knowledge.
Excerpt from Pastor Lee’s sermon, Nov 3, 2021
(Ephesians 4:11-16)