Ephesians 4:7-16 - Gifted Leaders Bring The Church To Maturity

⁷ And to each one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ⁸ Wherefore he says, When he ascended on high, he took captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.

⁹ But this, that he ascended, what is it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended above all heavens, that he might fill all [places]. ¹¹ And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, ¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, ¹⁵ but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ; ¹⁶ by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.