Study session scripture: Ephesians 5:18, 22, 6:9

Study session topics:

• Filled and fullness: support for trinitarian understanding

• Being subject to one another

• Wives subject husbands as to the Lord

• Husbands loving wives

• Marriage as picture of Christ and the church

• Summary of Christian marriage

• Children and parents in the Christian household

• The larger household of mindsets

• Discussion

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Study session scripture: Ephesians 5:6-22

Study session topics:

• The importance of knowing truth and avoiding deception

• Leaving the former darkness for the light

• The light of what happened in baptism

• Living in the opportune time

• Understanding the Lord’s will

• Formatting Bible passages

• The dynamics of being filled by the Holy Spirit

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Study session scripture: Ephesians 4:28-5:6

Study session topics:

• The character of a believer in actions and speech 4:28-29

• Grieving the Holy Spirit 4:30

• Attitudes and demeanor 4:31-32

• Imitating God, loving in a sphere of loving 5:1-2

• What destroys life and truth 5:3-5

• The dangers of deceptions 5:6

• Discussion: character and parenting

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Study session scripture: Ephesians 4:8-27

Study session topics:

• Christ as victor providing supply to the church

• church ministers equipping the church for ministry

• Call to no longer live as the past person

• Renewing the mind as a new person

• Speaking truth

• Living with anger and restraining it

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Study session scripture: Ephesians 4:1-8

Study session topics:

• Ephesians 3:8-10

  • The purpose of the church

  • Making God’s wisdom known to rulers in the heavens

• Ephesians 4:1-2

  • Living with integrity of the faith in daily life

• Ephesians 4:4-6

  • A unified confession of commitment to the Spirit

  • One hope in the calling to the Lord

  • One common faith for all

  • One common unifying identifying ritual: baptism to the God and Father all believers present to all believers

• Ephesians 4:7

  • Empowering grace to all believers

• Ephesians 4:8

  • Old Testament prophetic reference to victory over pagans: Psalm 68

  • Old Testament prophetic reference to Christ’s victory over enemies: Psalm 68:18

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Study session scripture: Ephesians 3:1-4:6

Study session topics:

• Paul as messenger of gentile inclusion

• The message announcing unity to heavenly powers

• The message announcing access to God

• Paul’s imprisonment in God’s purpose

• Paul’s prayer for Christ to dwell

• Christ dwelling in believers

• Paul’s doxology

• Walking worthily

• A ‘creed’ reciting unity?

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Study session scripture: Ephesians 2:14-3:7

Study session topics:

• chart on the two ages

• Jesus’ reconceptualization: Christ is the ‘peace’ for divisions and enmity

• the Jewish particular ordinances

• the reconciliation of the Cross Proclamation (evangelization) of peace for divisions through Christ

• Use of Isaiah 57:17-21

• From stranger/alien to part of the dwelling of God (holy temple)

• Paul as messenger of the mystery of gentile inclusion

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Study session scripture: Ephesians 2:1-16

Study session topics:

• ‘Dead’ in our actions of wrongdoing

• But God in mercy and love

• Made us spiritually alive in Christ

• Raised us to spiritual life in Christ

• Seated us in power spiritually in Christ

• Saved by grace through faith

• Reconciliation of ethnic divisions and identities in Christ

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