Who is our teacher?

But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: - Ephesians 4.20-21

Paul makes it pretty clear that Christians are not going to live like the world. He tell us here that that if indeed we really have heard the teachings of Christ, if we really have let Him teach us through His word, and we are living according to the truth that is in Christ, then we are not going to live like the folks he wrote about in the previous verses.

We cannot be exclusivists. We have to live and function and work and play in this world. We can't shut it out. We are always going to be in it. The problem occurs when we are swayed and led by what the world teaches us. All the time the world is teaching us its way with mass media, advertising, and philosophies in films, books, and websites.  

But we have another Teacher - Christ the Master Teacher. His teaching is the Truth, no matter what else we might encounter. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

More often than not these teachings are in conflict. They are often mutually exclusive. We can’t follow the teaching of the world and at the same time follow Christ’s teaching.

So what does my life reflect? What do my words and attitudes and reactions and responses evidence? Do they reflect what I learn from the world or do they reflect what I have learned from Christ?