Diversity in Biblical Perspective

Key themes from Ephesians 2:11-22: Ø ‘In Him’—that is ‘in Christ’ we have present and eternal resources to live for, love and take deep delight in God. Ø Church—the book develops major themes centered on the community of God’s people. Ø Trinity at work in forging unity in the Body—immediate text shows how the trinity works to bring hostile ethnic peoples into one Body. Ø Cross of Christ not only paid the penalty for individual sins but also for ethnic/cultural hostilities. Ø What saves was the great question of Galatians. How Gentiles enter the church became the natural second question to the church comprised mostly of Jews and Gentile proselytes.