Thursday Bible Study

  [Grace and Peace] EPHESIANS_   [Activity] Spend some time exploring the logical flow of Ephesians 4:17-5:2…   [Read Ephesians 4:17-24]   In verses 17-18, how does Paul describe the pagan mind and heart?     What behaviour resulted from that thinking (verse 19)?     How is this kind of thinking similar (or different) to our culture today?     In verses 20-24, in contrast, what teaching did the believers receive?     How can we be “renewed in the spirit of our mind” (verse 23)?     [Read Ephesians 4:25-5:2]   What are the sins that Paul says we are to ‘put off’?     What new behaviours are we to ‘put on’ instead? What reasons does Paul give for each of these?     How wide-spread and evident are these “new behaviours” in our culture today? Why do you think that is?     In verse 30, what’s the main reason to change our t...

  [Grace and Peace] EPHESIANS_   [Activity] Spend some time exploring the logical flow of Ephesians 4:1-16…   Growing up, I was sometimes fortunate enough to receive a new computer console for either my birthday or Christmas… I can remember being so excited to actually unbox and play on this new console, that I didn’t bother to carefully read the set-up instructions before I started ripping all the packaging apart. It didn’t take long to realise I didn’t know what I was doing and this wasn’t going to be as quick or simple as I first thought and inevitably, I would still have to read the instruction manual… I was so keen to operate the computer first and then (maybe) read the instructions later.   [Read Ephesians 4:1-6]   In the second half of this letter, Paul takes his readers back to the very practical and fundamental instructions for living the Christian life. In verse 2, what does Paul mean by the phrase “ bear with one another in love” an...