[reallifenewsletter] Ephesians Reflection Questions

This morning I started putting together some reflection
questions that would go along with the Bible reading we are
doing together. What I'd like you to do is take one or two
days and instead of doing the regular reading, re-read these
chapters and answer the questions. I'm including questions
for the first two chapters of Ephesians, so you can do them
either taking one day per chapter or you can try doing two
chapters in one day.

What I'd like to see is: 1) Are the questions helpful?
2) Would you like to have more of them to go along with
the reading?

I think the questions could be useful, but I don't want
to make the burden too heavy on the daily reading so I'm
not sure if it is reasonable to do on a daily basis. Also
it is good to do reading that is not so study focused and
more just reading in a devotional sense - listening to what
God may be saying to you in the passage. But perhaps these
questions could help with that. These things are what I'd
like to find out.

Certainly you can use the questions as discussion topics
as well as you talk to each other about the reading if
you are checking in with an accountablility partner (I'd
like to get us set up on a regular schedule with that for
those who'd like to do it so that we each have one or more
partners etc.)

So with no further ado here's the questions:

Ephesians 1:
A key phrase in Ephesians that is repeated over and over is "in Christ"
or "in him". Other phrases that are basically the same are "through Christ"
or "with Christ".
1) Underline in your Bible all the instances of these phrases in Chapter 1.
2) Write down all the things that are related to these phrases. For
instance:
1:1 the faithful ___; 1:3 every spiritual blessing __; 1:4 he chose us ___;
etc.




3) 1:3 - Who blessed us? With what? Where? What do you think this means?



4) 1:4 starts out with "For" meaning that it continues from the last
sentence. It actually begins an explaination of what the "spiritual
blessings" are that we have in Christ. List what those "spiritual
blessings" are.




5) 1:17-18 Paul begins to explain what he is praying for the Ephesian
believers to have and know. What are those things? (Again the explaination
goes for a few verses)




6) Do you know that YOU have all the spiritual blessings talked about in the
first section? Consider the list in questions 3 and 4. If there are things
you don't know or understand what they mean, pray and ask God for
understanding and then either mark them above or here so we can talk about
them later.


7) Do you have and know what Paul is praying for the Ephesians to have? If
not, lets pray for God to give them to us and let us also thank God fot he
things here that we know we have already.


8) Write down any verses or things that stand out to you.


I need to go for now so try this first chapter out and I'll get you the
second
as soon as I can.

-Nathanael


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