{"id":4170,"date":"2016-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/rather-speaking-the-truth-in-love-we-are-to-grow-up-in-every-way-into-him-who-is-the-head-into-christ-ephesians-415-esv\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T00:00:00","slug":"rather-speaking-the-truth-in-love-we-are-to-grow-up-in-every-way-into-him-who-is-the-head-into-christ-ephesians-415-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/rather-speaking-the-truth-in-love-we-are-to-grow-up-in-every-way-into-him-who-is-the-head-into-christ-ephesians-415-esv","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ&#8221; (Ephesians 4:15 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the goal and the means of our speech are described. The goal is maturity in Christ. The means is twofold: &#8220;truth&#8221; and &#8220;love.&#8221; The mission of the Church is to make disciples who are being conformed to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29). The members of the Church are to speak the unvarnished, absolute truth to one another, so that they don&#8217;t fall prey to false doctrine and worldly deception. Yet, this truth should not be delivered in a harsh, judgmental way, but in a graceful and loving way. Our speech should have the goal of &#8220;building up&#8221; the hearer (Eph. 4:29). Some consider themselves truth-tellers and others are people-pleasers, but the Word calls for us to avoid both extremes. Instead, speak the truth in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the goal and the means of our speech are described. The goal is maturity in Christ. The means is twofold: &#8220;truth&#8221; and &#8220;love.&#8221; The mission of the Church is to make disciples who are being conformed to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29). The members of the Church are to speak the unvarnished, absolute truth to one another, so that they don&#8217;t fall prey to false doctrine and worldly deception. Yet, this truth should not be delivered in a harsh, judgmental way, but in a graceful and loving way. Our speech should have the goal of &#8220;building up&#8221; the hearer (Eph. 4:29). Some consider themselves truth-tellers and others are people-pleasers, but the Word calls for us to avoid both extremes. Instead, speak the truth in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1316],"scripture-chapter":[1337],"oyb_day":[1795],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4170","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-ephesians","scripture-chapter-1337","oyb_day-september-25"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}