“God’s Plan for His Church

– Together in Christ”

 “Learning from Ephesians.”

At the beginning of September we are starting a series based on the book of Ephesians. Ephesus was another territory in crisis when Paul arrived with his Missional Community. After 18 months or so the Holy Spirit moved in power through Paul and His friends and after a period of economic discomfort, a church was born. The themes Paul addresses in his letter to the church some time later remain as significant and relevant as the day they were written.

Ephesians can help us experience on-going renewal in God’s grace, love and power – as were learn to experience and apply to truths it contains. We are also clearly reminded that we are in a battle and we can win because Jesus Christ has already won it for us. This leaves us with present day skirmishes with an already defeated enemy. The heart cry of Paul in Ephesians is that God’s people will know who we are in Christ and to actually experience the unfathomable nature of God’s great love – a love that provided complete security because all punishment is removed.

We are placing the emphasis on learning together rather than on the teaching. As learners (another word for disciples) we can grapple with the principles provided in God’s word and then actually chose to devote ourselves to building our very lives on them. These are the unshakable foundations that can stand the winds and rains of pressure.