Ephesians - Week 10

Class Outline:

Informal Bible Study

Thursday August 17, 2017

1. Pray
2. WordCloud for the entire epistle to the saints at Ephesus
3. Setting up our work on puzzling passages.
   1. What questions help us in understanding a difficult passage?
   2. What method can we use to figure out the meaning of a passage?
   3. What resources can we turn to?
   4. Handouts:  

(1) Questions to answer for difficult passages (new!)

(2) Top-down/Bottom Up graphic (new!)

(3) Accurately Handling the Word of Truth: Resources (new!)

4. Workshop on puzzling passages.
   1. Let’s go over our list of puzzling passages from last week.
   2. Who did work on one?  Please share what you found.
   3. Let’s work out one or two together.  EPH 4:8, EPH 5:18. 
   4. Handouts:  
      1. List of puzzling passages.
5. Assignment:
   1.  Read the epistle to the saints who are at Ephesus  in its entirety 4 times between now and our next Bible study on August 24th.                    
   2. As you read, right down your thoughts about the following question:  How does the epistle of Ephesians apply to my life?
6. Close
7. Group prayer session