The ministry of the church includes which group?

• A. angels
• B. elders
• C. saints
• D. prophets

Answer: (C)

Understanding who participates in the church's ministry is about recognizing that ministry is service carried out by the people of God, not just leaders or heavenly beings. Believers are called saints—holy ones in Christ—who form the body of the church and are gifted by the Spirit to serve one another and extend God’s work in the world. This makes the saints the group through whom the church carries out its ministry in daily life, evangelism, teaching, care, and service.

Angels, while powerful messengers and servants of God, are heavenly beings not part of the church’s membership or its ongoing ministry in the world. Elders play a crucial leadership role in guiding and shepherding the church, but the ministry belongs to the whole body of believers—the saints, not only the leaders. Prophets were a gift used for edification within the church, but the broad, ongoing ministry is centered on the saints who are in Christ.