Working from the Church Blueprint


As we actively pray into and ponder the nuts n bolts of re-starting our physical church gatherings, we are not simply asking the practical questions of ‘how can we gather safely amidst the different restrictions?’ (though these are valid questions). For us there is a much more important question to keep at the front of our thinking …

The more important question for us is ‘What will help fuel our discipleship, our mission, and our togetherness as church in mission across the city?

What will help fuel our discipleship, our mission, and our togetherness as church in mission across the city?

Paul encourages us in his letter to the Ephesians how the ascended Christ generously gifts the church a variety of people-giftings that will help us do the very thing implied by our important question. Christ gives us:

We need all five of these giftings working harmoniously together in our leading – to effectively tackle the overall question given above. Ephesians chapter four sets out this combination as the blueprint by which His people (the church) may be equipped for ‘works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up … attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ’ (Ephesians 4 verse 13).