This Sunday we return to our Ephesians series and pick up where we left off before Easter. In this passage, Paul turns from describing the Christian calling to applying it: he has spent half the letter teaching about what it is to be a Christian, but now he turns to how we should live in the light of this.
‘Unity’ and ‘diversity’ are words that are difficult to use without connoting the flavour and agenda of our modern liberalism, where diversity has become a political and social calling card for all manner of causes, many of them thoroughly secular and some of them explicitly anti-Christian. Unity is hard to see anywhere, from politics to the playground, but unfortunately where it does occur it is usually the worst kind of unity: an unthinking and selfish demand for ‘what’s best for us [the united]’. Yet Paul insists that a mature church is characterised by both.
Join us on Sunday as we try to sort out what exactly Paul is talking about and how we can try to follow the word of God in pursuing Godly unity and diversity, whilst avoiding replicating (or reacting against) culture in an unhealthy way.
