In what ways are the “codes” in chapter 6 applicable in your life today? How should you be living them out more fully?Other thoughts on this chapter or on the overall book of Ephesians.
The armor of God consists of Truth, Righteousness, Readiness in the Gospel, Faith, Salvation, the Word of God, and Prayer. How differently would we live our lives if we daily “dressed” in these? What difference would it make to the people around us?
What have you taken away from our study of Ephesians 6 that will enable you to live more like Jesus in this world?
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Ephesians 6
I'm kind of sad. I thoroughly enjoyed our study of Ephesians and wish it were a longer book. Since it's not, tonight we ended with chapter 6. Here's the link to the podcast. We tried to take a different look at the second portion of chapter 6 on the armor of God. Give it a listen. And here are the questions that we discussed:
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okay: so i was thinking... i love in the very last verse where it says "Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love."
"undying" is such a great way to describe the love that we can hope to have for Christ by clothing ourselves with the armor of Christ... we talked about what it means to have an impenetrable force around us when we wear our armor.. but sometimes we mess up.. and those are the times that we need the GRACE vs24 talks about. when we fail we begin walking down a path that leads to death... but thanks be to Christ: we don't have to die... because of His sacrifice and love for us.
also: God's love for us is described in the Bible as "unfailing" 36 times in the NIV... how awesome!! He meets our constantly failing love with a perfect love that allows us to have UNDYING love for Him.
I've truly loved reading the book of Ephesians. To me, it is the precursor to any organizational theory book, any leadership book, any self-help book, or any interpersonal relationship book. It clearly defines that in all relationships it is critical to show mutual respect. What a revolutionary position to take in a time when the strong dominated the weak and heirarchy reigned supreme. Of course, we still see aspects of that behavior today, but on the whole, I do believe that more people understand and accept the importance of mutual respect. If every manager, professor, person of authority stopped for a minute and remembered that in the eyes of the Lord, he/she and his/her subordinates are equal, there would be a significant shift in managerial style.
JimZ
turns out that all eight my thoughts ended up as one big post on my blog...
I hate to subject you all to the length in this comment section, so if you'd like to read, just click on my name at the top of this comment and it should take you there.
Having said that, I particularly connected with last night's teaching. I wanted to relate to you all the crux of a conversation that Paul I. and I had after worship last evening. He actually articulated my point better than I did. I talked some about the 'good vs. evil' without being 'us vs. them' folks...well,
Paul said it this way: The instruction here is to stand and if for some reason we fall down, we're obviously not standing anymore. If we, however, are the ones knocking people over, that's not so good either.
Okay, okay it's not a quote. More like a loose paraphrase, but I think the gist is there.
Cheers, Trevor. Did a great job...
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