Bringing Light (stand alone)

Ephesians 4:1-6 ESV

“ I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

• We are called to walk in a manner.
• We are called to one another in love.
• We are called to unity.

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV

“11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.”

God gave us to equip us.

“A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.” –John Maxwell

We are called to unity through and .

Living In Truth

Truth relative.

Speaking In Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-2 ESV 

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV 

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

μένω Menō (v.)

We must seek truth, speak it in love, in the context of relationships.