This morning, I preached at Pip & Jim’s morning services. We’re currently working through Ephesians, and I was speaking on 4:17 – 5:2 – the section headed “Instructions for Christian Living”.

I was focussing on how St Paul balances rebuking the Church in Ephesus for living like the Gentiles with making sure they know about the love of Jesus, and I reflected on how the Church today is often much better at telling people off than sharing Jesus’ love.

I introduced the congregation to the ‘bounded set’ and ‘centred set’ models of church, and challenged people to consider how they might ‘walk in the way of love’ (Ephesians 5:2) to bring the transformation Jesus offers to their communities.

The book ‘Both-and‘ by Rich Nathan was helpful in my preparation.

Download the audio recording and the Keynote slides.