Aaron preached yesterday from Ephesians 5:1-14 on being imitators of God and stressed two principles:
1. Love hard -- like God -- extravagantly.
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
Ephesians 5:1-2, The Message
2. Live as children of the light. We are called to be holy (Ephesians 1:4)
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."
1 Peter 1:14-16, ESV
Why full moon Christians? It is said that a full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon. Don't be just a half way Christian -- be a full moon.
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Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Philippians 2:14-16, NIV
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