Background: Letter from Paul, probably written in Rome, to the members of the Church at Ephesus, chief commercial city in Turkey. Approximately 61 AD.
Mercy, Grace and Works
READ Ephesians 1:13-14
What does “earnest of our inheritance”
mean?
READ Ephesians 2:4-9
What is mercy?
What is grace?
Are we really saved by the grace of God?
What is the role of works?
The Cornerstone
READ Ephesians 2:12-14, 16, 19-20
Who are we divided or far off from?
Who are we reconciled to through the atonement?
What is a cornerstone and why is it
important in a building?
Why is Christ the chief cornerstone of
the household of God?
The Role of Prophets and Apostles
& the Road Back to God
READ LoF 2:54-56
What is the responsibility of those who
have stood in the presence of God and Christ (i.e. apostles and prophets)?
READ Ephesians 4:11-15
Why are there callings in the Church?
How do we come to a unity of the faith?
How do we be no more children, tossed to
and fro by every wind of doctrine?
READ Ephesians 3:14-19
What enables us to be able to comprehend
the “breadth, length, depth and height” of God?
READ Ephesians 4:5
How many roads lead back to Christ?
READ Ephesians 4:17-19, 22-24 and 30-32
What are the Two Ways?
Husbands and Wives
READ Ephesians 5:25, 28-29
How did Christ love the Church?
READ Ephesians 5:30-32
What is the “great mystery” of being one
flesh as a married couple?
Principalities, Powers and the Whole
Armor of God
READ Ephesians 1:20-21 and Ephesians 6:12
What are these “named” principalities,
powers and dominions that Christ is far above?
Why is it important to know who we fight
against in this world?
READ Ephesians 6:10-11, 13-18
How do we protect ourselves in the battle
that is raging around us every day that we cannot see?
What is the whole armor of God?
Can we truly defend ourselves from Satan
and his followers?
How does one put on the “whole armor” of
God?
What is the nature of this armor? How easily can it be strapped on or removed?
What is the implication of this?
What is difference between a “war”
mindset and a “battle” mindset?
Why is subtly one of Satan’s greatest
weapons?
