Ephesians 5:1-2 Christ - among us, in us, be traced in ourselves and speak to us.  He doesn't just want to speak to us but see himself in us.  Godly love and Godly holiness. My life is the life I live for Christ; in Christ and through Christ. Wrought - heating, hammer, water, shape; hammered out.  God wants to hammer us out.  It's not just good enough to know God.  Don’t live in temptation house but in God's house/community. We study God; learn his ways; copy him just like in a family.  St Augustine: God could love man so much and man love God so little. https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/study/module/augustine/ You can't plead ignorance  (darkness);  light (truth) - stay and journey in the light.   We can't just walk as Christ?  No we should shine as well.  It's important that we shine (turn the light on)  when light shines; it falls on other.  Shine on others, who shine on others and others  (reflected light).  We are to shine God's light n

"So I’m telling you this, and I insist on it in the Lord: you shouldn’t live your life like the Gentiles anymore. They base their lives on pointless thinking, and they are in the dark in their reasoning. They are disconnected from God’s life because of their ignorance and their closed hearts. They are people who lack all sense of right and wrong, and who have turned themselves over to doing whatever feels good and to practicing every sort of corruption along with greed. But you didn’t learn that sort of thing from Christ. Since you really listened to him and you were taught how the truth is in Jesus, change the former way of life that was part of the person you once were, corrupted by deceitful desires. Instead, renew the thinking in your mind by the Spirit and clothe yourself with the new person created according to God’s image in justice and true holiness. Therefore, after you have gotten rid of lying, Each of you must tell the truth to your neighbor because we are parts of each

Ephesians 4:7-16 The writer is naming the ministries of the church; not the governance of the church.  We are to particularly love each other.  We are to function first of all as a family. 1 Peter 3:8 Families are not built on regulations; families are built on relationships. Church is to be built on relationships; fellowship; Acts 2:42 is how church is supposed to work. Acts 2:42 Ephesians 4:3 Church is Christ's body.  Ephesians 1:23.  Jesus liked to call his disciples.   There is a way God's people are expected to live. It's important that we understand that what we do even in public either hurts or uplifts our body. Jesus also referred to his people as 'sheep'.  John 10 Church is to be led and cared for by shepherds  (Elders, Pastors) God elects those who are to do ministries.   Ephesians 1-3 Paul spends time about nature of church as conceivedby God. Ephesians ch 1 As God's children as we would like to think of our children; God wants to bless h