Featured Does Ephesians 4 Refer to Local Baptst Only Churches?

1As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
7But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8This is why ita says:
“When he ascended on high,
he took many captives
and gave gifts to his people.”b
9(What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regionsc ? 10He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Did paul mean this to refer just to the local Baptist churches, to all Christian local assemblies, or to the Church as the Body of Christ itself?

 

That would be my understanding also, as while God gives to local assemblies those gifted person to build them up, he also as given such to whole Body, and he did want unity in local churchs, as in 1 Corithians, but also here inthhis passge to all who name Jesus!

 

Think that there were NO Baptist churches in Acts, but they did teach/preach and worship like we do now a days ..

 

Correct, swhile the NT churc in acts taugt andhelp probably to "Baptist" views, there were officially no Baptists until much later on in church history!

 

No, just that they were not called Baptists, as thoe churches historically existed much later !

 

No , that those NT churches were called just Christian church, and tha Historical Baptist ones came much later!

Baptit like teaching/doctrines were from early on, but not the label!

 

Church of Rome thinks they do!