A Breathtaking View

A few months after we arrived in the UK in 2019, our family did the London Eye. It was a cold and rainy day, but it still offered us (outside of an airplane or helicopter tour) the most breathtaking view of London. NT Wright says that Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is like the London Eye. Though not the longest or fullest of Paul’s writings, it offers us a breathtaking view of the entire landscape:

You get a bird’s eye view of one theme after another within early Christian reflection: God, the world, Jesus, the church, the means of salvation, Christian behaviour, marriage and the family, and spiritual warfare. Like someone used to strolling around London and now suddenly able to see familiar places from unfamiliar angles - and to see more easily how they relate to each other within the city as a whole - the reader who comes to Ephesians after reading the rest of Paul will get a new angle on the way in which his thinking holds together.

Join us as we start our new series on the book of Ephesians.