Pastor Caleb Galloway
"Anchored in the Truth"
Ephesians 4:12-16 ESV

The Church's greatest need is to know and tell the truth of God's word. The goal is intimacy with Christ, unity with his people, and maturity in the faith. We accomplish this by knowing the truth of God's word (vv.11-14), which God imparted to his church in order to equip us for ministry and to protect it from false doctrine. We also progress in this by telling the truth of God's word to those around us (vv. 15-16), which we are called to do in love so that we might all be encouraged to grow together as a body.

Ephesians 4:12-16
English Standard Version

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,[a] 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. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.