The circumstances of our world feel increasingly turbulent and they so easily toss us back and forth as we attempt to navigate them.
Yet Jesus gave gifts to the Church to ensure that we would know and remember the Gospel as our anchor in Him and His Kingdom in all things, becoming become mature and complete, fully equipped for the mission of God.
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.