Heartland

If we are to live faithful and obedient lives, we must live in the power of God’s Holy Spirit. We must be in the Spirit and the Spirit must be in us.

Paul highlights the tension between knowing and wanting to do what is right and actually doing it that we all experience as we seek to follow Jesus. We’re not to give up hope, as Jesus Christ will one day bring us to perfection.

Paul calls us to choose which master we will serve, sin and death or life in God through Jesus. We make this choice by presenting ourselves as instruments of righteousness.

We have been united with Christ through our baptism. This means that we have shared in his death and resurrection but also that we now receive vital nutrition from Christ to go forth and walk in newness of life.

We have peace with God because we have been granted continued access into God’s presence so that we might grow in grace.

If we want to participate in the work that Jesus is doing in our world, bringing about the Kingdom of God, then we must pray and wait for God’s Spirit to empower us and send us out.

As followers of Jesus, we're to work toward unity of the spirit by having sympathy, a tender heart, a humble mind, while always being ready to share God's love.

Jesus calls us to be faithful in doing good for others, even if it means we might experience suffering.

We are being built into a spiritual house which is to give testimony to the goodness of God.

We are called to be holy as God our Father is holy. Holiness means living with genuine mutual love.