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Available MP3 Download: Growing The Body Of Christ In Oneness, by Gary Hargrave. This message was spoken in Austin, Texas on Friday, November 18, 2016.
Growing The Body Of Christ In Oneness
In Ephesians 4, Paul describes the purpose of the gift ministries that Christ gave to His church: “ For the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:12-13). The fruit of the gift ministries is not to see a few individuals minister; rather, their anointing must bring a many-membered Body of Christ to a place of oneness and maturity so the Body moves in a ministry to the world. The people of the Cathedral of Praise are on the brink of changing the landscape of Christianity — a landscape that fulfills Christ’s prayer of John 17:22: The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one. The first step is for you to pray for a revelation of where He has placed you in the Body. He places every member in the Body as it pleases Him (I Corinthians 12:18). When you receive that revelation, then commit with all your heart, in love and in faith, to function as a member of that Body. In that place where He sets you, you will mature and grow in His glory, and those around you become more than a church — they become your family of God.