The Message of Ephesians

by Stott, John R. W.

• ISBN13: 9780877842873
• ISBN10: 0877842876
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-06-01
• Publisher: Ivp Academic

Summary

Millions have caught Karl Marx's vision of a New Man and a New Society. "Paul presents a greater vision still," writes John Stott. In his letter to the Ephesians the apostle "sees the human predicament as something even deeper than the injustice of the economic structure and so propounds a yet more radical solution. He writes of nothing less than a 'new creation.'"John Stott expounds Paul's theme of uniting all things in Christ by uniting his church and breaking down all that seperates us from God, one ethnic group from another, husband from wife, parent from child, master from slave. A book for all who want to build the church into the new society God has planned it to be.

Table of Contents

General preface

Author's preface

Chief abbreviations

Introduction to the letter (1:1-2)

New life

Every spiritual blessing - 1:3-14

A prayer for knowledge - 1:15-23

Resurrected with Christ - 2:1-10

New society

A single new humanity - 2:11-22

Paul's unique privilege - 3:1-13

Confidence in God's power - 3:14-21

New Standards

Unity and diversity in the church - 4:1-16

A new set of clothes - 4:17-5:4

More inventives to righteousness - 5:5-21

New relationships

Husbands and wives - 5:21-33

Parents, children, masters and servants - 6:1-9

Principalities and powers - 6:10-20

Conclusion - 6:21-24

Study guide

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