Ephesians 4:1-6.
community: a group of individuals sharing a common interest or goal.
- personal sanctification (1-2).
- humility: knowing one’s own unworthiness.
- gentleness: keeping one’s power under control as a result of humility.
- patience: long suffering; only possible through humility and gentleness.
- forbearing love: Agape love; unconditional, unquestioned, and sometimes unreciprocated love.
- in a unified community (3).
- personal sanctification displayed and proven only in a community.
- diligently preserving the unity of the Spirit.
- alert and quick at mending broken fences.
- for the Great Commission (4-6).
- one body, one Spirit, one faith, one calling, one God.
- soonjangship, or disciple making, is a lifelong calling.
“I therefore, a prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” - Acts 4:1-3.
