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This is primarily the job of the staff, the “pastors and teachers” who are to equip the saints for the work of ministry, according to Ephesians 4. We are to give you the tools, knowledge, and training to equip you to minister according to God’s will (which is often using your spiritual gifts) for the strengthening of the Body. We want to equip you to fulfill your role in the Body of Christ. It is not the staff’s job to fulfill your role, nor to do all (or even most) of the work of ministry. It is the staff’s job to equip YOU to do it.

It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up…(Ephesians 4:11)