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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We come again to the Word of God and to Ephesians chapter 4.

Ephesians has been a foundational letter for the church in every age since the New Testament

time in which He was written.

And so we have spent a number of months going through this very, very important letter from

the Apostle Paul not only to the church at Ephesus, but to every church throughout the

history of the church in the world.

So much here is vital for us to understand.

So we come now to verses 7 to 16, verses 7 to 16 in the fourth chapter.

My curiosity drove me to do a little bit of study to try to find out what the contemporary

evangelical church says are the measures of a church's success.

And so I read through a lot of material and I basically came up with the following lists

that are offered as measures of a church's success.

Things like this, the ability to grab attention, provision of entertaining experiences, money

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