Who we are and what we do (Ephesians 4:1-16)
The growth and the flourishing of the body of Christ is measured by its love.
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The weaving together of doctrine and ethics in this week’s epistle reading makes my heart sing. Here, I think, Paul is laying out for his readers the beating heart of the practice of Christian faith. There is no separation here between theory and praxis, between the supernatural and the pragmatic, between worship and justice. It’s all here, and not like two items set next to each other on a table but like the union of flour and water to make bread, in which neither can be seen or understood on its own any longer, but both are now determined by their relationship to the other.
