Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2013-01-29 ILC Chapel — The Church is like a…

2013 Chapels -
The Church is like a team. Christians need to live in Christ’s Word to be able to do His will.

 

Date : 2013-01-29
Speaker : Steven Sippert

Ephesians 4:11–14 (Listen)

11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds1 and teachers,2 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,3 to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Footnotes

[1] 4:11 Or pastors

[2] 4:11 Or the shepherd-teachers

[3] 4:13 Greek to a full-grown man

(ESV)

Hymn: TLH 461, st. 1,2,4 :
Hark! the Church Proclaims her Honor

Hymnary.org — Organ Audio

1. Hark! The Church proclaims her honor,
And her strength is only this:
God hath laid His choice upon her,
And the work she doth is His.

2. He His Church hath firmly founded,
He will guard what He began;
We, by sin and foes surrounded,
Build her bulwarks as we can.

4. Onward, then! For naught despairing,
Calm we follow at His word,
Thus through joy and sorrow bearing
Faithful witness to our Lord.