Ephesians 4:17-24 - The Call to Transformation

Reflection

Think about your former manner of life before you met Jesus.

• What has Jesus saved you from?

• Are there aspects of your former manner of life that still manifest itself in your life today?

• How does Ephesians 4:17-20 describe our former manner of life? Why is it necessary to flee this type of faultily?

Think about your life in Christ.

• What things have you learned about Jesus in your walk with him?

• Read Ephesians 4:25-32. Where do you see these qualities in Jesus? Take some time to read through the Gospel of Mark to identify them.

• What kind of spiritual habits do you have that help you spend time with Jesus?

  • If you don’t have any, why not?

  • What are some health habits you can begin now.

Pray

• Ask God to help you see areas of your life where you have allowed futility to creep in.

• Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the humility you need to submit to Christ’s authority.

• Pray for the universal church. That God would protect her from futility and that she would display the unity that we have in Jesus to the world.

Continue to pray with and for the church in Washington DC.

• Pray for their church’s witness there.

• Pray, too, that judgment will begin in the household of God and that what we are seeing might be a clarifying moment for our nation to distinguish between true Christianity and false imitations of civil religion; for repentance that unleashes a wave of repentance and revival.

• Pray that God will move to peel back what is hidden so that we can see true justice unleashed that will lead to peace.