🪑 Equipped - Songs to the Church in Ephesus (Ephesians 4:7-16)

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ARTIST: Cillerie Wulff
Instagram: @art.bycw
Email: cilleriew@gmail.com

LYRICS:
But to each one of us grace was given
According to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high
“He led captivity captive;
“He gave gifts to all men.”

Now what does it mean “he ascended,”
Except that he also descended to the earth?
The very one, he who descended, is also who
Ascended above all
In order to fill all things.

It was He who gave some as

Apostles, as prophets, as evangelists,
As pastors and teachers, to equip the saints
For the work of the ministry,
To build up the body of Christ,
Until all attain to the unity
Of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God—
A mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s stature.

So we are no longer to be children,
Tossed to and fro' by waves and carried around
By every wind of teaching by trickery of people who craftily carry
Out their deceitful schemes.
Practising truth, truth in love,
We will in all things grow up into Christ, the head.
From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every ligament.
As each one does its part,

The body grows in love as...

Apostles, as prophets, as evangelists,
As pastors and teachers, to equip the saints
For the work of the ministry,
To build up the body of Christ,
Until all attain to the unity
Of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God—
A mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s stature.