{"id":206,"date":"2008-08-24T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/messages\/2008\/the-equipping-of-the-church\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:32:20","slug":"the-equipping-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/2008\/the-equipping-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Equipping of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Outline&mdash;Ephesians 4:&nbsp;12&ndash;13<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The task of the local church (v. 12)\n<ol class=\"level2\">\n<li>Upon whose shoulders does it fall?&mdash;Saints<\/li>\n<li>Design of the local church&mdash;Equip saints<\/li>\n<li>Occupation of the local church&mdash;Equip saints to do work<\/li>\n<li>Labors of the local church&mdash;Equip saints to do work of the ministry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>The loyalty of the local church&mdash;Build the body of Christ (body building)<\/li>\n<li>The goal of the local church (v. 13)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Take Home Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Congregational government demands a biblically literate church.<\/li>\n<li>Ministry is every believer&#8217;s business.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t stop setting the bar higher in your life until you are like Christ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download Recording<\/h3>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20080824hi.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Broadband<\/a> Connection (Approx. 22 MB)<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20080824lo.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Dial-Up<\/a> Connection (Approx. 2.7 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline&mdash;Ephesians 4:&nbsp;12&ndash;13 The task of the local church (v. 12) Upon whose shoulders does it fall?&mdash;Saints Design of the local church&mdash;Equip saints Occupation of the local church&mdash;Equip saints to do work Labors of the local church&mdash;Equip saints to do work of the ministry The loyalty of the local church&mdash;Build the body of Christ (body building) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}