Let’s do this together

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Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore, I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.” Ephesians 4:1-3 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “Let’s do this together”
 
As we learned yesterday when we looked at the truths from Ephesians 2:10, God has created each of us as unique individuals – as His workmanship or masterpiece. Then he placed each of us in the time and place we are at, to do the good works He has planned for us to do from the very beginning.
 
Now in Ephesians 4:1-3 Paul describes for us the kind of people we should be – people who live in a manner worthy of the calling we have received from God; people who have a spirit of humility and gentleness; people who are patient and gracious with others; people who show love and who strive for unity and peace. (Please note that such a Christian is still strong and bold, still advocating for Biblical principles, but with a winsome Christlike demeanor. It’s sad to see how many Christians in our day who act like loud, angry, bitter, crusading cultural warriors, when the overwhelming weight of New Testament teaching on the subject is precisely what Paul described above. Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John all taught similar lessons in many other passages.)
 
When we apply this lesson to the subject of lifelong learning, we discover that lifelong learning of Biblical truth, and the transformation of our personality that the Holy Spirit brings about as a result of that learning, progressively changes us more and more into the kind of person Paul described above.
 
Then, if we are all engaged in that transformative lifelong learning, and if all our personalities are becoming more Christlike, what a sweet and attractive fellowship that would be. What if you have an entire congregation of people who are strong in the truth, as well as humble, gentle, kind, gracious, committed to unity and peace, demonstrating love, and living faithfully to the calling they have received? That sounds great to me! I vote that we do it.
 
Lifelong learning about the will and ways of God, and the transformation it brings about in individuals and entire congregations, is a beautiful thing. Let’s do it. Let’s do it together.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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