Ephesians

 11 Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.

14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

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Maturity is speaking the truth in love and growing to be more and more like Christ.  It is all to be done in love.  I see more and more how Paul weaves what he calls the “law of love” through everything he teaches.

 

The “law of love” in Paul is just an extension of what Jesus taught.  All of the law is summed up by Jesus in loving God, and loving each other.  The more I mature in my walk with God, the more loving I will be.

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