Getting Ready for Service

The word for "equipping" here comes from a word which suggests setting a bone that has been broken or mending a fishing net. The thought is of getting ready for service. One means of getting Christians ready for use is getting them ready to serve, or perform even the most lowly physical task. Further, there is the work of building up the body through teaching. Our goal as individual Christians is to practice the things of the preceding verse until we become perfect like God (Matthew 5:48). To have any hope of reaching such perfection, we must be united in the faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ. Perfection is not measured by comparing ourselves with others but by stretching to become like Christ (4:12-13).

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