Trajectories (Ephesians 5-6)
Another Sunday morning talk for you this week, based in the Ephesians 5-6 reading from the Bible Companion plan on Sunday 7th October. I was addressing a challenging subject from the household code section: how do we move forward from the pages of scripture toward the light of Jesus Christ? What does it look like to really engage the text in our lives?
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Appreciating Paul's original audience and their culture - and Paul's background as a Jewish scholar - leads us to understand that Paul doesn't present household codes as a prescriptive "user manual" for Christians, but as an invitation to follow the trajectory of righteousness and life in Jesus Christ.
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References
Snodgrass, Klyne (1996). Ephesians, The NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
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Jesus vs. the Bible at living-faith.org
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