S3-57 THE PROPHET & HIS MESSAGE

A pastor's primary role is perfecting the saints: changing or converting our nature from carnality to spiritual. (Romans 8:7). It can be torturous labor, for we do not change easily! Yet if transformation were not possible, there would be no references in scripture to the term 'overcoming.' So, the God-called ministry leads us "who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life" (Romans 2:7). The necessity for "unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God" ought to be evident to every elect child of God. How can Christ's church call itself a body if we wrangle over an essential understanding of scripture and God's nature?