Ephesians 2:1-22

How to Become New and Stay New:

1 - We must understand grace as the action of Jesus dying in order to make you alive, to raise you up, and to seat you rightly. It is not just a covering of sin, it is the elevation of your personhood to no longer desire it through the process of sanctification. Your choices and thought patterns determine how alive you feel, raised up you walk, and if you truly feel seated with God. His words and Spirit cannot convince you of something you don't want to be convinced of.

2 - You are saved by grace, not works... however we must not lose sight of a byproduct of that grace; good works. God's creative intention for your life is that you would be someone who His grace paves a way forward for good works to follow. The gift of God is the example of Jesus. If you won't follow the example, don't be mad if you don't like the taste of the recipe your choices and behaviors have prepared.

3 - You should be being built up inside personally, apart of building within your career collectively, and in the temple beside all those doing the same corporately. True purpose in God is found when He truly has no limits, and is invited to any and all things we do. Your career is not off limits, your daily lifestyle is not off limits... and if it is there will be a limit to the fullness of God we walk in. Grace is enough to save, only you can decide what that saving produces.