Tuesday Bible Study (8/17)-Songs of the Spirit in Our Hearts, A Spirit of Gratitude on Our Lips
Channel: Holy Trinity Church East Pittsburgh
Date: 2021-08-17

Stop your freaking bellyaching and political raging about the condition of this world.  That doesn't attract anyone to Jesus Christ.

Bad things happen in this world (as they always have)...

Paul, in Ephesians 5, doesn't fixate on the evil nature of the world; rather, he focuses upon what we can do about it.  He never tells us to rage about the evil: Paul never does.  Evil just is.

Rather, Paul says that we should give the world a better alternative: we are to sing a beautiful melody.  We are to acknowledge the blessings of life and give thanks. We are to walk around this world as ones who are imitators of Christ.