The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 64 : One Body  (4:4)

What is ‘the body of Christ’?  –  All believers believe in the two entities of a local assembly of believers and the family of God  –  The curse of sinful bias  –  Our mutual prayer  –  ‘One body’ understood by all to refer to the church, but what is the church?  –  A declaration, not an exhortation  –  The body is not just union but energy plus operation  –  Does the ‘universal-invisible church’ fit the context?  –  The ‘church’ is not ours to re-define  –  What Paul writes to one ecclesia he writes to each