Exploring Ephesians
Series Overview
Paul’s letters to Ephesians is one of the most popular letters in the New Testament. It’s a beautiful mix of theology and practice, as most of Paul’s letters are, but without the confusion we often associate with Romans or the chaos of Corinthians. Each lesson in this twelve week series contains discussion questions and activities for teens. They’re still being uploaded at the moment.
1. What’s Ephesus Like?
[Acts 19] Paul’s time in Ephesus gives us a lot of informations about the city, and provides useful context for his letter to the Ephesians.
2. Who are the Ephesian church?
[Ephesians 1:1-14] The beginning of a letter can tell you a lot about who it’s being written to. And boy, does Paul have a lot to say to the Ephesians Christians.
3. What difference does Jesus make?
[Ephesians 1:15-23] Featuring the Bible’s ability to be simultaneously quite simple and very complicated.
4. What’s our purpose?
[Ephesians 2:1-10] Spoiler alert: God makes all the difference to it.
5. How do People become the Church?
[Ephesians 2:11-22] How did Jews and Gentiles with nothing in common turn into one big, loving family?
6. Why does Paul do this?
[Ephesians 3:1-21] He travels through storms, preservers in riots, writes letters from prison. Why does Paul keep on keeping on?
7. How are we united?
[Ephesians 4:1-16] It’s not all for one but the one who died for all which makes the difference.
8. What’s Life with Christ Like?
[Ephesians 4:17-32] Off with the old and on with the new!
9. How do we live as Children of Light?
[Ephesians 5:1-20] Life with Christ is Paul’s big theme for this letter.
10. What is marriage for?
[Ephesians 5:21-33] There’s a deeper meaning to marriage and Paul is so excited about it.
11. How do we live as Christians at home and at Work?
[Ephesians 6:1-9] Authenticity and living your whole life as a follower of Christ are today’s themes.
12. Argh! How do we live like this?!
[Ephesians 6:10-24] Having written so much about how we could be living, Paul let’s us know how we can actually do this.