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Ephesians 1:15-23



Paul continues His letter to the church in Ephesus with a prayer. He prays that as follower of Jesus, we would know these four things: to know Him, to know the hope to which we were called, to know the riches of His glorious inheritance, and to know the immeasurable greatness of His power. What would our lives look like if we truly knew these things? How different would we walked in the same power that raised Jesus from the dead?

Ephesians 1:3-14



Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus opens with an epic prayer. It’s a prayer that celebrates the bigger story within which every one of our stories is a part of. We come to find that this story is not so much about what we have to do to get into God's good graces, and more about what God has done to welcome us into His blessing.

Ephesians 1:1-2



We begin a new collection of teachings on the book of Ephesians. Ephesians opens our imaginations to what growing up and maturing in Christ could look like. While the church in Ephesus got off to a powerful start, we later read in Revelation that they had lost their first love along the way. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and very little about how it might continue. How do we recapture first love? And how do we sustain and grow in love on the journey of life?

Can you think of a time in your life, when someone showed up to give you the strength you needed to carry on? When the early Church gathered, their time together was marked by a supernatural encouragement. People walked away strengthened and filled with the courage to live into their destinies. What would it look like to be a community that embodies encouragement? Recorded live from Belong Retreat.