Date: September 3, 2023 (In-Person Simulcast)
Bible Text: Ephesians 5:1-20 | Stephen Weenink
Series: Opportunity & Opposition
Obedience is about doing and NOT doing. Anyone who has children knows that a balanced approach to parenting involves giving children guardrails: Encouraging healthy behaviour and action, and discouraging destructive, negative behaviours and actions.
Just like kids, though, we don’t like guidelines, especially when they interfere with what we like to do. When it comes to our faith, we want a spiritually that is disembodied, that only impacts our minds & our souls:
- When it directs how we live our lives in our bodies, we spiritualize it.
- We make it about something other than doing or not doing what is required.
- We want our faith to benefit us without restricting us.
However, if we want a faith that impacts real life, we need to let it direct how we live our lives. How we use and don’t use our bodies…
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Topics: Discipleship,Faith,service,Serving
