Turn with me to Ephesians the fourth chapter this morning. Ephesians chapter four.

We're on important business this morning. I'm picking up where I left off on Vision Sunday this morning. I told you that I, if you were here, I told you I was going to do some things and you'll

find out that if I tell you I'm going to do something, you can expect it.

And I said that we were going to teach you and demonstrate to you how to do things, the work of the ministry.

Amen.

And we're beginning a series on that this morning.

And we're going to stay with it until the Lord releases us about it or tells us something differently.

How many were not here with us, vision Sunday?

Put up your hands, so, okay, quite a few.

All right.

If you feel like that this is going to be your church,

I'd very much like for you to have that tape.

And we've made it available for, what did I say, $2,

which is very little, as you understand,

because we just want it to be available.

We talked about how the church is going to operate and what our emphasis is going to be.

And among other things, we talked about how the ministry is going to work

and how the people in the church are going to operate.

And we said to you that there is a crippling deception in the body of Christ, and that is that the preachers, the pastors, are responsible to personally and individually minister to all the people in every area

do all the praying for people all the visiting people all the counseling people this is not

correct did you hear me a church can never be big like that.

It cripples a church.

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