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“When Jesus held up the bread at the last supper with his disciples and said, “This is my body which is broken for you.”, did that bread “teach” the lesson to them or was the bread used as an object lesson by Jesus to teach them?” Neither. It was a miracle which they beheld and believed because they knew Christ was the Son of God, and promised them His flesh, and His very word had the power to transform. “The church isn’t the one doing the teaching, it is so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.” The Church is still teaching then.

Now I think you are just being obtuse for the heck of it! Are you familiar with the term "object lesson"? You may remember the commercial for the Say No to Drugs campaign that showed a sizzling frying pan with an egg. The narration went, "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.". Is this coming back to you or are you too young to remember? The pan and egg didn't do the teaching, they were objects used to relay some kind of teaching. That is what is meant by God's grace being demonstrated through the church with the church being the teaching aid - the object lesson. A little more clear now?

Your analogy doesn’t work. The Church is not an inanimate object. The Church is the Body of Christ.

“That is what is meant by God’s grace being demonstrated through the church with the church being the teaching aid - the object lesson.”

Manifest wisdom of God. That is what is taught by the Church to the angels, not “God’s grace being demonstrated through the church with the church being the teaching aid”: “so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places” (ESV)

“A little more clear now?”

Is it clearer for you now? I suggest you actually deal with the verse and not essentially claim it says “God’s grace being demonstrated through the church with the church being the teaching aid”.