disciples, “teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19–20). The failure to make disciples and, yes, to teach ethics, is sometimes the great omission of the church. The biblical resources for Christian ethics are not limited to Jesus’s teaching, either. Second Timothy 3:16–17, often quoted to emphasize the authority of Scripture, also speaks to the concern for ethics in the whole of the Bible: “All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking,
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