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NASB | Ephesians 4:11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 4:11 And [His gifts to the church were varied and] He Himself appointed some as apostles [special messengers, representatives], some as prophets [who speak a new message from God to the people], some as evangelists [who spread the good news of salvation], and some as pastors and teachers [to shepherd and guide and instruct], |
Subject: Once upon a time |
Bible Note: "Once upon a time in a village called Vanity Fair there dwelt a community made up of sinners, saints and saint wannabes. The saints let their light shine for their Lord in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Under the shelter of God's wings, all was well until a look-alike professor of religion took into his head the strangest fantasy ever known. He imagined that his brethren were inferior to him in his great understanding of the Word of the Lord. He decided that he alone, among the saints, was right and everyone else was wrong. "In his dementia was born the idea that all he needed was his Bible and no outside help. He reasoned since (other) men were fallible, yet he himself was not, that he would ignore the teachers that his Savior had given to the church. He knew the Scriptures taught that the Spirit had given gifts to men and that his Lord had given those gifted men, including pastors and teachers, to the church. But since the idea did not seem reasonable to him, he thought it best to ignore that Scripture and devise some scheme to explain away what it clearly said and meant..." |