John R W Stott Dr Markus Barth, who finds Ephesians so puzzling that he depicts it as ‘a stranger at the door’, nevertheless confesses that this stranger gains the right to enter ‘because its readers have a place in the intercession of the author’ (The Broken Wall, Collins, 1960, pp. 23, 24). Certainly Paul begins and ends the doctrinal section of his letter with praise and prayer. Let me direct your attention to the prayer which concludes it (3:14–21). We need to set it