Sometimes television commercials coin iconic idioms. Capital One found a phrase that worked for them: “What’s in your wallet?” Do you have a mouth? No answer needed! Our mouths can be like smokestacks. Hence my title. When your neighbors, co-workers, and family drive their lives near yours what do they see? Is the factory of your life pumping out pollution from one end while putting a Christian face on the other? How well does that work?
Look again at the phrases we studied last week: do not lie; be careful with your anger; isolate Satan’s influence; stop stealing; work honestly; be generous. Those were the beats of Christian thinking that Paul drummed for his readers. Listen to the drum he continues to pound toward God’s way of self-expression.
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