Ephesians 4 tells us that the five fold ministry gifts are for multiple reasons, but one is to mature the body of Christ. We have a lot of titles that call people one of the five fold ministry gifts, like apostle, prophet, pastor, teacher or evangelist, but we have very few of those titles who are maturing the body of Christ. The days of titles are over the days of function are here. Those five gifts were given to the church to mature us, to equip us, to deploy us. The evidence that these are titles not functions in the church right now is the amount of immaturity we see in the body of Christ.

Sixty “prophets” confronted one “prophet” publicly and now we have a myriad of commentators weighing in on a matter revealing our immaturity from the “prophets” down to the YouTube commentators. Church, Proverbs 26:20-21 says, “For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.” The more we talk about it the more the quarrel stays alive and reveals our immaturity as the body of Christ.

Then we have a video of a Bishop having a health issue publicly on Sunday during the service and the venom being spewed about this man is embarrassing and again evidence of our immaturity. I am not saying we should not know about these things, but we speak about people we have never met and have no first hand knowledge of.

Those are just public quarrels and comments. This is happening in local churches as well with leaders speaking about their people, about people speaking about other people, the quarreling, strife, and slander is revealing we have had titles but not function, for the body of Christ is very immature. But thanks be to God, He does not leave us in our mess. We have entered a season of house cleaning so He can remove the reproach off us as a body, of whom Christ is the head. God is focused on function not title and we are about to grow up as God gives us leaders that function according to Ephesians 4 and train us to not be tossed to and fro any mo. Our best days are upon us. Maturity is so much more beneficial to all of us.