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Reading Ephesians with John Stott: 11 Weeks for Individuals or Groups is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus is a concise yet comprehensive summary of the good news and its implications. The entire letter is a magnificent combination of Christian doctrine and Christian duty—faith and life—written that we might recognize the hope to which we are called. In this volume, John Stott’s teachings from The Message of Ephesians are offered as brief devotional readings...

There is one Christian family, embracing us all (v. 6) because “one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” We must assert that there can be only one Christian family; only one Christian faith, hope, and baptism; and only one Christian body, because there is only one God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. How, then, can the disunity of the church be reconciled with the biblical insistence on the indestructibility of its unity? The apostle himself recognizes this paradoxical
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