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Come celebrate the birth of Jesus with us and take a look “behind the curtain” at the reason for our celebration.

Unity, diversity, purity and harmony—these the apostle has stressed as major characteristics of the new life and the new society in Christ. It has seemed a beautiful ideal, an obviously desirable goal, and not so difficult to attain. But now Paul brings us down to earth, and to realities

Paul now passes from the reciprocal duties of husbands and wives to those of parents and children. As he does so, it is immediately noteworthy that he thinks of the local congregation as a ‘church family’, consisting of both sexes and of all ages. Since he addresses the children in this

Paul has been outlining the new standards which God expects of his new society, the church, especially in terms of its unity and purity. These two qualities are indispensable to a life which is both worthy of the calling and fitting to the status of the people of God. He moves on now to the new

Paul moves on in his treatment of Christian behaviour from models to motivation, and adds four powerful incentives to righteous living.