The Gospel of the Kingdom of God is an invitation to a new way of life. And not just on Sundays, but in every hour of every day.
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Paul spent the first three chapters telling the narrative of what God has done, but then in chapter 4 there’s this transition toward us and what we are to do and he’s finally begun to answer that question: How do we church?
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The cure for division is to center on Christ, who is our peace, who in his flesh tore down the wall of hostility which separate us. Christ, who is gathering all things in heaven and things on earth, is drawing all people to Himself to be built together into a dwelling place for God, and He himself is our cornerstone. Without him as our center of gravity, it all falls apart. (Ephesians 2:11-22)
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Ephesians is about ecclesiology – the church. What should the church look like; who are we? If there’s any question this letter is in response to it is simply this: “But how do we, the church, live, right here, right now?”
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We humans are so desperate to see where God is because, I think, we intuitively understand that if we can find Him we will be OK. (2 Cor. 12:2-10)
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What if we stopped trying to be so-and-so down the street? What if we stopped striving to be something we aren’t? What if we could quit trying to mimic what we see on Facebook or Instagram and, instead, focused on being faithful…and smart?
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What do we do when things don’t go according to plan? What do we do with regret?
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If we start from any other theological point than the simplicity of “God is love” – without the usual “buts” which may sometimes accompany this truth – we are bound to wind up with a theological system and/or church which may justify some pretty heinous things in the name of Jesus, as even a cursory reading of church history can demonstrate.
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Following our model, Jesus the Good Shepherd, we can lay it all down for the sake of those Jesus loves — for the sake of those we are learning to love — as we are being formed into the kinds of people who make up this new kind of community Jesus is still forming.
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