Easter Sunday is only three weeks away. Last year I spoke to you about Hebrews 2 and how Christ's resurrection has delivered us from the fear of death. This year, though, we are going to take a break from Hebrews to do a five-week miniseries titled Your Changing Body. I'm deliberately taking this cringe-inducing title from one of those old health textbooks you were forced to read as a teenager. The fact of the matter is, our church body here is changing. There are some new faces in the pews. There are only a few families left who were here when I started pastoring this church eight years ago.
As our body changes, we need to be sure that we are changing toward maturity. We don't just want to grow — as much as we all like to grow. We want to grow up. There's a difference between growing and growing up. One refers only to the size, but the other to maturity. So in our series, we are going to look at five different components of maturity that Scripture relates directly to Christ's triumphal entry, death, resurrection, and ascension. We will start today with the last one of those — His ascension, which we have also been talking about in Hebrews for the last several months. Ephesians 4 has a lot to say about how Christ's ascension into heaven relates to our maturity, our growing up as a body of Christians in Gillette, Wyoming. What I hope to show you this morning is that because Christ has ascended to the Father's right hand and from there poured out the gift of the fivefold ministry, our church can and must grow up to a grace-powered maturity that looks like Jesus.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
