Practice Resurrection : a Conversation on Growing Up in Christ

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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Ephesus and the Ephesians -- 1. The Church of Ephesus: Ephesians 1:1-2 -- The Church We Never See -- Church Illusions and Deceptions -- The Miracle of Church -- 2. The Message to the Ephesians: Ephesians 4:1, 7 -- The Axios Metaphor -- The Psalm 68 Text: "You ascended the high mount ..." -- II. The Blessing of God -- 3. God and His Glory: Ephesians 1:3-14 -- Lost in the Cosmos -- God's Verbs -- God's Glory -- 4. Paul and the Saints: Ephesians 1:15-23 -- "I remember you in my prayers." "All the saints" -- "It is here. We are on it. It is under us." -- 5. Grace and Good Works: Ephesians 2:1-10 -- Acquired Passivity -- Good Works -- Works as a Form for Glory -- III. The Creation of Church -- 6. Peace and the Broken Wall: Ephesians 2:11-22 -- The Brambles of Individualism -- "A serious house on serious earth" -- The Ontological Church -- "[Jesus] is our peace" -- The Hospitable Church -- 7. Church and God's Manifold Wisdom: Ephesians 3:1-13 -- "I am the very least of all the saints" -- Meshech and the Tents of Kedar -- Inscape -- Shadow Work 8. Prayer and All the Fullness: Ephesians 3:14-21 -- "Glory in the church and in Christ Jesus" -- "I bow my knees before the Father" -- "All the fullness" -- "The inner man" -- 9. One and All: Ephesians 4:1-16 -- "The calling to which you have been called" -- The Language of Paraclesis -- Deometry -- Baron von Hugel -- IV. The Congregation at Work -- 10. Holiness and the Holy Spirit: Ephesians 4:17-32 -- Stalamus Chief -- Negative Space -- Shy Member of the Trinity -- 11. Love and Worship: Ephesians 5:1-20 -- "Things fall apart -- the centre cannot hold ..." -- The Language of Love "Sleeper, awake!" -- 12. Household and Workplace: Ephesians 5:21-6:9 -- Borrioboola-Gha -- "Wing to wing and oar to oar" -- Between -- The Ark and the Tomb -- 13. The Wiles of the Devil and the Armor of God: Ephesians 6:10-17 -- "Stand firm" -- "The wiles of the devil" -- "The whole armor of God" -- "Pray in the Spirit at all times" -- "Tychicus will tell you everything" -- Appendix: Some Writers on the Practice of Resurrection