Continuated our series called Modern Church.

And this is our fifth week in the series.

And it's supposed to be our last week in the series,

who knows what God has in store for us.

But let's just jump right into it.

Let's go to Ephesians chapter 4.

And we're going to read the verses,

the passages that we've been reading for the last now five weeks.

But I added a verse.

We started reading from verse 4 through verse 12.

But I added verse 13 as we go further in our understanding of the modern church.

And God's awesome strategy, not only to take care of the church,

but to be a blessing to the world.

So let's go to Ephesians 4, verse 1 through 13.

If you're not standing, it's just a wonderful thing.

If we can all be in unison,

standing as we read and rehearse these passages.

And this is Paul writing.

Paul writes,

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,

beceach you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

with all loneliness and gentleness, with long suffering,

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