What if the church really read and understood these two verses?

 What if the church really read and understood these two verses?

What if the those called to be these gifts lived these two verses?

I wonder when this changed in the church from equipping the saints to entertaining the saints?

Why did it take me so long to really understand this and understand that our traditions of church has replaced what the church is to be. The body of Christ in action not just lip service.

Ephesians 4:11-12

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ

Equipping is more than just giving information, it is putting those equipped into action.