The sense of verses 11-16 can be summed up by verse 13, where Paul puts the final purpose of what the ascended Christ is doing in the church: to mature manhood, the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. This is reiterated another way in v 16: so that the body builds itself up in love. The sermons on these verses will then have the following focus: we must aspire toward maturity as a church. This is the primary goal of what we as a church do. Here is how we bring glory to Christ. How
