Big Picture

On Sunday we plan to look at a huge hunk of Ephesians together. In studying Ephesians 3,4,and 5 this week I have been blown away with the genius of this book God-breathed through Paul. How practical. How mind-stretching, heart-warming, comforting and challenging.

Their theme is the integration of Christian experience (what we are), Christian theology (what we believe) and Christian ethics (how we behave). They emphasize that being, thought and action belong together and must never be separated. For what we are governs how we think, and how we think determines how we act. We are God’s new society, a people who have put off the old life and put on the new; that is what he has made us. So we need to recall this by the daily renewal of our minds, remembering how we ‘learned Christ... as the truth is in Jesus’, and thinking Christianly about ourselves and our new status.

Here is a link to an extended quote where John Stott summarizes Ephesians Four & Five.