Building Godly Aura

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Creating Unity

Paul outlines two areas of unity.

The Faith

Knowledge of God’s Son

The funny thing is that what we often think of the terms “faith” and “knowledge” are reversed here.

Faith defines the beliefs that we hold onto and which Paul identify in vs. 4-6. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all”.

-The way that you often choose friends based on certain hobbies, passions, or beliefs that “unite” you to them. Whether this is because your friends shape what you believe or because you find yourself to be friends with those with similar views and interests as you. As believers, we are “united” to our truths about God and how we are to live.

Knowledge refers to our trust in Jesus as the Son of God who we are now united to as believers. As each of us, individually, build our relationship to Christ, we corporately build one another up through our knowledge of Jesus.

Have you ever been in that class where there were great vibes between the teacher and the whole class? Like, you may not be friends with those students outside of that class, but in that class everyone got along because you all knew and loved the teacher and the teacher loved all of you?

-What Paul talks about here is how our relationship to Christ brings us together in unity. That with the people of God the vibes are immaculate.

As we each individually grow into Christ, we as the body of Christ also grow. We don’t allow one part to grow weak, but instead, we seek to grow strong together.

In v. 16 Paul shares how each individual part of the body supports the growth of the whole. Only when each individual part does its job can the body work properly.

What happens when you skip leg day? As we each individually grow, we also must help one another to grow.

In a world that spreads disunity and that attempts to create dividing lines between believers, we desire to be a place that invites students to hear the Gospel and to see Gospel culture among students, families, and across TCC.

What I want to see is unity between all high school students and all middle school students, between high school and middle school, between students and children, between students and parents, between families and all adults, between each part of the church.

We need mature leaders and parents to help grow students, and we need mature students to help spread the Gospel in our schools and communities.

So how do we reach this godly maturity? This is the second part Paul discusses.

Reaching Maturity

Paul describes how we must no longer be “little children”. We have to grow from adolescence into adulthood.

Evidence tells us that in our culture that students are wanting to become “adults” later and later in life. Students are driving later than ever, they aren’t leaving their parents home as early, and they are trying to hold on to “childish” things into adulthood. I think we should give space for kids to be kids and not push them into adulthood. But I think we often sell our students short for what they can know and accomplish.

-We see the value of students developing a strong foundation in many different areas of life. In different subjects of school, they learn algebra, English, history, and science. In different extracurriculars that they develop strong skills in. But when it comes to what they believe about God and the World they are often getting the most information from social media, from voices that will not direct them in the truth.

-This is what Paul reveals to us. That when we are young everything that we hear at school, that we watch on social media, that we read from

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