Memory Text: “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one” (Colossians 4:6, NKJV).

INTRO: Last week’s Good Word lesson focused on our new life in Christ. This week we focus “living with others,” which seems to include many and different challenges from our life in Christ. While baptism alone does not perfect our characters, Paul describes how followers of Jesus and “clothe” themselves with the “new self” received in Christ. Colossians 3:1-17 clearly describes these changes which we are to “put away” and other with which we ...