Ephesians 5:1-14 is training for the Christian's conscience in how to talk again. When we are born again, we have to learn how to walk and talk again. We have to learn how to speak the gospel -- how to speak words of grace. The world tries to train our conscience through words that tear people down and through dirty jokes. This is a second installment of the school of Christ. The two main lessons being that words of thanks to God should replace trash talk and words that expose works of darkness should replace words excusing or approving of bad behavior.

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Labels: conscience, grace, learning, speaking, words

Ephesians 4:17-32 offers us an introduction to the school of Christ. Some of the lessons for Christians include that honest labor leading to sharing replaces stealing, speaking the truth in love to build one another up replaces speaking the lie to tear one another down, and forgiveness and kindness replace anger. This is training for our conscience. The world would rather train our consciences to be desensitized to sin. But in the church we want to continue to learn these lessons with one another in practice. We do not master them in this life but as we learn them we grow in our maturity.

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Labels: anger, conscience, forgiveness, kindness, learning, sharing, speaking, stealing, truth