When kids are young, they often end up copying their parents in some of their ways or habits. Children will mimic how their parents talk or move without even knowing that they are doing it. When it comes to our walk with Christ, Paul expresses to us in this week’s text how we should “be imitators of God, as beloved children.”

Join us for the final message of our short series WALK this week where we will look at Ephesians 5:1-2 and consider being a church and being Christians who Walk In Love as imitators of God.

Series: WALK (Ephesians 4)

Patrice Charade

Message: 5 - Walk in love

Harvest Bible Chapel Alliston

Text: Ephesians 5:1-2

October 13, 2024

As a member of Harvest Alliston, I am called to imitate God as I… (v. 1a)

…know his love to me (v. 1b)

If God’s love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

John Piper

Romans 8:35

All the best things in life start with him and his grace for the undeserving.

Ray Ortlund, To The Tenth Generation

Romans 3:23-24

…walk in love towards others (v. 2)

Facts about loving others

1) We love ourselves more than we love others.

Philippians 2:3

2) We confuse love with permissiveness.

Romans 12:9-10

3) We set our own terms and limits.

1 John 3:16-17

4) We cannot love in words alone.

1 John 3:18

5) Loving others is not an option

Matthew 22:37-39