November 24, 1985

The Role of the Congregation, Part Two

by Alistair Begg

Local Congregations have a responsibility to be involved in the life of the church body by serving one another in love and by exercising spiritual gifts for the common good. As we are taught and prepared by the pastor/teacher, the call to each of us is to identify the gifts we have been given by God and to use them to build up the body of Christ. In this message from Ephesians 4, Alistair Begg reminds us of this responsibility to press on to the maturity that is found in knowing and growing up into Christ.

Ephesians 4:1

Unity in the Body of Christ

¹I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

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Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.

Other messages in: Authority in the Church

We live in a culture that displays an increasing contempt for authority of all kinds. Contemporary ideas and attitudes are light years away from what the bible has to say. In these stories we learn that God’s plan for leadership in the church is not that one individual should dominate the next -- autocracy. Nor is it one man, one vote -- democracy. It is certainly not ‘every man for himself’ -- anarchy.

Instead the biblical pattern is ‘servant leadership’ -- a plurality of godly men responsible ‘for’ not ‘to’ the congregation. This is not a matter of marginal importance. The church cannot and does not make progress beyond the spiritual maturity and sensitivity of its leaders.

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Message	ID	Scripture	Buy
Authority in the Church, Part One ID: 1142	1142	Colossians 1:18	CD
Authority in the Church, Part Two ID: 1144	1144	Colossians 1:18	CD
The Role of Elders in the Church, Part One ID: 1147	1147	1 Peter 5:1 Acts 20:17	CD
The Role of Elders in the Church, Part Two ID: 1149	1149		CD
The Role of Elders in the Church, Part Three ID: 1150	1150		CD
The Role of Deacons ID: 1154	1154		CD
The Role of the Congregation, Part One ID: 1156	1156	Ephesians 4:1	CD
The Role of the Congregation, Part Two ID: 1157	1157	Ephesians 4:1	CD
The Role of Women in Church, Part One ID: 1159	1159	Genesis 1:26 Genesis 2:19	CD
The Role of Women in Church, Part Two ID: 1161	1161		CD
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