{"id":3164,"date":"2023-03-20T20:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T03:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:01:56","slug":"roles-and-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2023\/03\/20\/roles-and-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Roles and Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I preached at our home church from Ephesians 4:7-16 as we continue our series through the book of Ephesians. It was interesting that 20 months ago I preached at the same place on the same passage, but with additional study the sermon ended up being quite different. God&#8217;s Word continues to offer new insights!<\/p>\n<p>The main point of the message was:\u00a0We all receive different gifts of grace to grow the church toward maturity in Christ.\u00a0Paul offers the antidote to division despite the diversity of different gifts of grace: 1) Embrace Christ\u2019s sovereign and diverse gifts of grace (7-11), and 2) work to grow the church toward united maturity in Christ (12-16).<\/p>\n<p>If you would be interested in watching and listening to the message, enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtr0B1Y9G7k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I preached at our home church from Ephesians 4:7-16 as we continue our series through the book of Ephesians. It was interesting that 20 months ago I preached at the same place on the same passage, but with additional study the sermon ended up being quite different. God&#8217;s Word continues to offer new insights! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2023\/03\/20\/roles-and-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roles and Goals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages-and-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}