Bible Verses About Christ is God: As Giver of pastors to the Church

He gave some to be emissaries; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

for the perfecting of the holy ones, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Messiah;

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Messiah;