This teaching wrestles honestly with cultural pressure, sexual ethics, speech, and formation—while holding out a hopeful vision of transformation. Paul’s call is not about moralism, but about waking up to the light of Christ and learning to live as people who reflect that light in the world.

In Ephesians 2, the apostle Paul pivots from humanity’s brokenness to God’s radical grace with one of the most important conjunctions in Scripture: “But God.” In this teaching, we explore how Paul uses language, metaphor, and imagination to describe what God has done in Jesus—and what that means for how we live together now.

In this message, we begin a four-week journey through Ephesians by sitting in the if: a bold vision of Jesus, a high Christology, and a radical redefinition of chosen, predestined, grace, and peace set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire’s gospel of “victory.”