Spoken Word
“Be filled with the Spirit by speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (singing and making music with your hearts to the Lord), by always giving thanks for everything to God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by submitting to one another in reverence for Christ. ”
For millennia, Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs have helped to encourage and to lift spirits. Here, Paul tells the Ephesian church to take what's helpful personally and offer it to one another. The Church is a distinct, called-out body that's in the world but not of it. Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs remind us of where we're really from and whose we really are. Over the next few weeks, can we be generous with one another in this way?
