It’s Sunday Again-March 22: It’s About How We Live

Ephesians is about the conduct of the church.
The practical or application section of the book (Eph. 4-6) speaks again and again of how we live.
We know how to live because of what we know. Our calling changes our conduct. Our doctrine informs our duty. The connection between beliefs and behaviors must never be broken.

  • We are called to live in worthy lives in healthy, peaceful relationships with one another (4:1ff). Such is the power of the church as it reaches toward unity, maturity, and spiritual growth and capacity.
  • We are not to live as the unChristian world around us (4:17ff). We have left behind a life characterized by lack of understanding, ignorance, insensitivity, and indulgence. In Christ, changed lives are possible as we learn Christ.
  • We are to live lives of love, imitating God (5:1ff).
  • We are to live in light and as light (5:8ff).
  • We are to live enlightened lives (5:15ff). Live in wisdom, understanding the will of the Lord.

All of this is possible because of what we know (chapters 1-3): God’s power, purpose to save, peace, and presence. Will you devote some of today to thinking again about God and his purpose in your life? Will you seek to tell someone else?