Week 3 - Identity
Church
Ephesians 4:7-16

When you think of the church, what (

) comes to mind?

• The church as a (

) station.

• The church as a (

) theater.

• The church as a (

) store.

• The church as a big (

) retailer.

• The church is a (

) in which you are equipped to help the church become what it (

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) be.

You are (

). (V. 7, 16)

God has sovereignly given each person within the church special abilities to minister to other (

) within the church.

It is a (

).

I am Needed — but (

) Than You Thought (v. 8, 12)
Jesus is the (

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).

There are two pictures of how pastors and other leaders are supposed to function in the church:

(

) services to consumers.

(

) the people of the church so that they can play their God-given roles.

Ministry is carried out by (

) within the church.

• The (

) is Scripture, which tells us what to do. We are the (

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). Pastors are the (

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) directors, with God as the (

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) in charge.

• The Result Is That the Church Will (

) what is supposed to be (v 15-16)

What Paul talks about here is (

).

Speaking the (

) in love.

• Paul wants us to be a church that holds the (truth) of the gospel and that lovingly speaks it to each other.

• That this passage does a much (

) job of speaking to who we are in the church than I could have planned.

Will you play your part?