The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 11 : Thanksgiving, Intercession and Confessional Material in Praise to God  (1:15,16)

Form and Structure of Ephesians 1:15-23  –  Paul’s prayer: Thanksgiving with Prayer for the Believers’ Knowledge of God and Their Awareness of the Significance of the Assembly (1:15-23)  –  A prayer to appropriate what is already ours  –  The second of eight long sentences in Ephesians  –  Why some reject Pauline authorship of Ephesians  –  Giving thanks to Whom it is due  –  Where does Paul end his prayer?  –  Historically, this was a verse used by the Arians