Life Together Walk Worthily – A Growing Church is A Growing Up Church Ephesians 4:11-16 “Owner’s Manual for the Church” – Bryan Chappell “Spiritual gift.” It is a God-given ability or skill that enables a believer to perform a specific function in the body of Christ with effectiveness and ease. Leaders are to Equip the Saints The Saints are to Do the Work of the Ministry Equipping Serving Building Up How Should a Church Grow? Attacks spiritual infantilism Selfish Individualism is a mark of Immaturity. 1. Maturing Christlikeness Rooted in the Scripture Growing in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ Demonstrating Spiritual Maturity Making Much of Jesus Schaeffer – “There are no little people in the kingdom of God and there are no little jobs” 2. Doctrinal Stability 3. "Truthing” in Love Loving People enough to tell the Truth Loving the Truth enough to tell it 4. Healthy Service