Questions to Study Ephesians

First class

Introduction
What was Ephesis like before the Christians got there?
• Who ruled?
• What did they do for work?
• What was their religion?
• Who were the first Christians? What obsticals did they encounter?
• Who wrote Ephesians? What happened when he was in Efesus?
• What happened after the book was written?

Manuscript Method (whole book)

1. Divide the Book into paragraphs. For the first two classes it is important to do chapter 1-3 and Chapters 4-6 for classes 3 and 4.
2. Put titles on the paragraphs (no more than 4 words).
3. Indicate the things that God does red and what man does in Blue.
4. Indicate the words (in different colors) that repeat en the letter: Heavenly places, walk, in love, in Christ, church, body or temple (when used to mean the same thing), fullness, Spirit or Holy Spirit.
5. Indicate the contrastes (good-bad, death-life).

Chapter 1

Ephesians 1:1-14

1. How are the recipientes described?

2. What has God done?

3. For what purpose did God do it?

4. What did Jesus do? And for what purpose?

5. What did the Holy Spirit do? And for what purpose?

6. What have the recipientes (we) done?


Ephesians 1:15-23
1. What motivated Paul to pray?

What is the purpose of Paul's prayer?

2. What does this say about God's work?

Second class: Chapter 2 and 3

Ephesians 2:1-10
1. What is the contrast en this pasage?

2. Why is this contrast?

Ephesians 2:11-22
1. To whom is Paul talking to in this paragraph?

2. What has Christ done? How has he done it? And why?

Ephesians 3:1-13
1. To whom is Paul speaking to specifically?

2. What is the main idea of this passage?

3. How does this mistery that is revealed to Paul affect my life?

4. What was Paul's task?

5. What role does Jesus play?


Ephesians 3:14-21
1. What is Paul doing and why?

2. What is the center point in this paragraph?

3. What does this paragraph say about Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit?

4. If this paragraph had not been in this letter, what would have been missing?
Si no estuviera este párrafo en la carta, ¿Qué faltaría?

Third class: Chapter 4:1-5:2

Ephesians 4:1-16
1. How do you understand this passage?

2. What is Paul ask us to do here?

3. What are some of the barriers?

4. How is Christ presented here?

5. How does it change our lives if we live according to this paragraph?

6. What is the contrast between this passage and our reality?


Efesios 4:17- 5:2
1. What does God want us to do?
2. What is Paul's purpose in writing this paragraph?
3 What does Jesus do?
4. What is the contrast between the old and the new man?

Fourth class: 5:3-6:24

Efesios 5:3-14
1. What does Paul hope the Efesians understand?

Efesios 5:15-33
1. What contrastes are there in this passage?

2. What is the purpose for the demands?

3. In parragraph 5:25-32, what is implied when we imita a Dios?


Efesios 6:1-9
1. What does this parragraph have to say about personal relationships?

2. What is the purpose to this parragraph?

3. Is there a difference between how society relates and how this passage is instructing us?


Efesios 6:10-24
1. What metaphores does Paul use and why?
What relationship does these metaphores have with the whole book of Ephesians?

2. How does Paul ask us to pray and why?

3. What is the conclusion to this letter and what does it emphasize?