Pastor Maritza taught that Ephesians is a letter to believers about what a truly *new life in Christ* looks like, contrasting it sharply with the futile, darkened, self-indulgent way the world lives. She urged Christians to stop “patching up” their old lives and instead fully put off the old self—sinful thinking, deceit, anger, dishonesty, laziness—and put on the new self marked by holiness, integrity, hard work, and daily surrender to the transforming work of the Holy Spirit.