You Can’t Sing With Smog in Your Throat

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LEAVING THE SMOG
(and living in God’s clean air)

Sunday we’re kicking off a new year with a fresh outlook. If a person lives in a smog-filled city, they come to think that’s the way life is supposed to be – but it’s not! Just as pollutants become a part of us and affect our health and our general well-being, spiritual pollutants become a part of our spiritual lives without us even realizing it and affect our relationship to God, to church, and to relationships. We’ll start Sunday with looking at the goal of pollution-free living in the Spirit, and then over the next eight weeks or so see how we can begin moving from where we are to where we want to be. Don’t miss this great series in Ephesians 4-5. Read ahead in Ephesians 1:3-14 and Ephesians 4:1-6 to get a foretaste.

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.  Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.  For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. (Ephesians 4:2-4 NLT)