Examples

Let’s say you want to do a better job of loving your spouse (Ephesians 5:22-33). List some ideas that would help in that endeavor.

• Create good habits and stop bad ones

  • Weekend habits that involve both of you.

  • Listen first. Talk after thinking.

  • Patience.

  • Get involved.

• Let’s say you want to stop gossiping (Romans 1:29). Let’s list more ideas to help with this.

  • Think of yourself as a new person.

    • “I’m the kind of person who first thinks if this is good.”

    • “I’m the kind of person who doesn’t encourage gossip.”

  • Shape your environment so it will help shape you.

    • If there is a particular avenue where you are tempted to gossip, limit or remove it.

  • Create good habits and stop bad ones.

    • Go straight to the person involved instead of talking about them.

    • I Corinthians 13:4-7

    • Don’t rejoice in unrighteousness.

    • Proverbs 10:12

Put on … purity

• Romans 13:12-14; Ephesians 4:19-24; 5:3 – Which of these passages were written to Christians? All of them!
• We need to admit how much of a temptation and problem this is, even among religious people.