God Addresses Our Struggle With Words

In ephesians one, beginning with verse 15, paul uses four dynamic words to capture the resources that are ours in christ for this huge struggle of talk. The first word is hope. By hope, the writer paul doesn't mean some dreamy wish over which there is no trol. No, he is using hope in its more biblical sense. Because we have hope, we can refuse to settle for the status quo. With faith and courage, we believe that we can gain ground. It's so easy when you're looking at all your commune tion failures,  to look at them and to look at yourself as poor, not having what you need to speak as