Podcast Summary: "Putting Feet to Your Faith"

Podcast: Cornerstone Chapel – Audio Podcast
Date: November 9, 2025
Scripture Focus: Ephesians Chapters 4 & 5

Episode Overview

This episode, titled "Putting Feet to Your Faith," centers on Ephesians chapters 4 and 5 and explores how Christians should practically live out their faith. The host systematically unpacks the Apostle Paul’s shift in focus—from doctrine (Ephesians 1–3) to practical Christian living (Ephesians 4–6)—and challenges listeners to "walk worthy" of their calling. The study digs into five key ways that believers are to "walk" as evidence of genuine faith.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Context of Ephesians and Paul’s Situation (00:00–05:15)

• Paul divides Ephesians into doctrine (ch. 1–3) and practice (ch. 4–6):
  • "The last half of Ephesians helps us understand, not just who we are in Christ ... but now how we are to live for Christ." (00:28)
• Paul writes from prison, yet calls himself a "prisoner of the Lord" (Eph. 4:1), emphasizing God’s sovereignty even in adversity.
  • "I might be in a Roman prison, but I’m actually a prisoner of the Lord because he believed in the sovereignty of God." (02:23)

2. The Right Way to Walk – Five Exhortations (05:15–40:00)

The central theme is how to "walk" in the Christian life, as Paul repeats the word six times in Ephesians 4 and 5. The Greek "peripateo" means both literal walking and living out one’s way of life.

a. Walk Worthy of Your Calling (Eph. 4:1–6) (05:15–16:00)

• All believers are "the called" (Romans 1:6; Greek: ekklesia = "the called out ones").

• To "walk worthy" means to live in a way visibly consistent with being a Christian.

• Paul lists five qualities to pursue (Eph. 4:2–3):

  • Lowliness (Humility)
  • Gentleness (Meekness—thinking of others more than oneself)
  • Longsuffering (Patience)
  • Bearing with one another in love
  • Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit
    • Not creating unity (only God does), but keeping it.
    • Importance of distinguishing essential doctrines (salvation, Jesus’s divinity, scripture) from secondary issues that often divide churches unnecessarily.

  Notable Quote:
  "You guys just try working on five things… with all lowliness, gentleness, longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit." (08:00)

b. Walk Differently Than the World (Eph. 4:17–24) (16:00–24:00)

• Paul exhorts believers to no longer walk as "the Gentiles," i.e., those alienated from God.

• Analogy: Changing out of dirty clothes and not putting on "yesterday’s underwear" after a shower—don’t return to old ways after being cleaned by Jesus.

  • "That's like putting on yesterday's underwear. He's like, you need to walk differently from the way you used to live…" (22:15)

• Renewal involves "putting off" the old self and "putting on" the new.

  • "You come dirty, smelly, stinky. And then Jesus redeems your life, forgives you, cleanses you..." (21:30)

c. Walk in Love (Eph. 5:1–2) (24:00–29:45)

• "Be imitators of God ... and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us" (Eph. 5:1–2).

• Jesus is the model: Love others as He loves us—sacrificial, merciful, corrective when necessary.

• Experiencing God’s love is more about transformative experience than intellectual understanding.

  Notable Quote:
  "We show mercy to people who need mercy, but we also love them enough to tell them the hard truth about things, too. We don’t just tolerate sin, because Jesus doesn’t tolerate our sin…" (28:45)

d. Walk in the Light (Eph. 5:8–11) (29:45–35:00)

• Once darkness, now believers are "light in the Lord."

  • Stay transparent before God—no secret areas.

• Reference to 1 John and Jesus as "the light of the world" (John 8:12).

  • Walking in light allows others to see Jesus reflected in us (Matt. 5:16).

  Notable Quote:
  "To really walk in the light means that there’s no secret areas of our hearts that are off-limits to God, that we are walking in the light as he is in the light..." (31:45)

e. Walk in Wisdom (Eph. 5:15–17) (35:00–38:30)

• "Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil."
• "Circumspectly" = wisely, watchfully, carefully.
• Emphasis on discerning God’s will and asking for His wisdom (James 1:5).
  • "When you’re walking in the center of God’s will, there’s no better place to be. And when you’re not… no worse place to be." (37:30)

Memorable Moments & Quotes

• General’s Wife Analogy (Humor, Walking Practice):
  "She stopped the music, clapped her hands ... she said, ladies, that is not how you walk!" (06:15)
  Used to explain Paul’s concern that Christians walk properly.
• Prisoner of the Lord:
  "Notice he’s not a prisoner of the Roman government. He’s a prisoner of the Lord. The Lord is sovereign over my life..." (02:35)
• On Church Unity:
  "Some churches ... you should never affiliate with or associate with because they embrace things that are unbiblical ... We should always have unity over the essential matters, the salvation issues..." (13:22–14:10)
• On Corrective Love:
  "God loves me so much that he is never content to allow me to remain as I am. And so he will challenge me in ways that make me feel very uncomfortable at times." (28:10)
• On Wisdom:
  "Satan is just waiting to hook you for some foolish thing you do if you let your guard down..." (36:05)

Timestamps for Major Segments

• 00:00–05:15: Introduction, Ephesians Overview, Paul’s Imprisonment
• 05:15–16:00: Walk Worthy of Your Calling
• 16:00–24:00: Walk Differently than the World
• 24:00–29:45: Walk in Love
• 29:45–35:00: Walk in the Light
• 35:00–38:30: Walk in Wisdom
• 38:30–40:00: Closing Prayer for Application

Tone & Closing Thoughts

Consistent with Cornerstone Chapel’s style, the message mixes warm humor (wedding anecdote), engaging contemporary language, and earnest biblical instruction. The host repeatedly underscores that living for Christ is not a matter of mere belief but of transformed, “walked out” behavior—humble, loving, different from the world, light-filled, and wise.

Final Application (38:30):
The episode closes with a comprehensive prayer, inviting listeners to ask God’s Spirit for help in walking worthy, differently than the world, in love, in light, and in wisdom—summarizing everything Paul urges believers to do in Ephesians 4 and 5.