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2nd Sunday in October
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Ephesians 4:1-16
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of
the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with
patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, being diligent to preserve
the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your
calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over
all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given according
to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says, "When He ascended on high,
He led captive a host of captives, and He gave gifts to men." (Now this expression,
"He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower
parts of the earth? He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all
the heavens, that He might fill all things.)
And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and
some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service,
to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the
faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of
the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ.
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and
carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in
deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects
into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and
held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working
of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself
in love. Ephesians 4:1-16 (NAS)
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Questions:

Paul entreats the Christians in Ephesus to ______ in a worthy manner (paragraph
1 above). He tells them to be diligent to preserve unity (paragraph 1), saying there
is one B____, and one S______, and one L______, one F______, one B________, one
God and F________ (paragraph 2 above).

In addition to these things in paragraph 2, Jesus gave some to be apostles, prophets,
evangelists, etc. (paragraph 3 above).

As a result (paragraph 4) we are no longer to be what?
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Suggested Bible Reading for Month:

October 1-7:New Testament -- Galatians 3:1 - Ephesians 3:21. Old Testament -- Song
of Solomon 1 - Isaiah 15.

October 8-14: New Testament -- Ephesians 4:1 - Philippians 4:23. Old Testament --
Isaiah 16 - Isaiah 38.
October 15-21: New Testament -- Colossians 1:1 - 1 Thessalonians 3:13. Old Testament
-- Isaiah 39 - Isaiah 63.
October 22-31: New Testament -- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 - 1 Timothy 5:25. Old Testament
-- Isaiah 64 - Jeremiah 22.
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Easy-to-Read Version:

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. And God chose you to be his people.
I tell you now to live the way God's people should live. Always be humble and gentle.
Be patient and accept each other with love. You are joined together with peace through
the Spirit. Do all you can to continue together in this way. Let peace hold you
together.

There is one body and one Spirit. And God called you to have one hope. There is
one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. There is one God and Father of everything.
He rules everything. He is everywhere and in everything. Christ gave each one of
us a special gift. Each person received what Christ wanted to give that person.
That is why it says [in the Scriptures], "He went up high into the sky; he took
prisoners with him, and he gave gifts to people." (a quote from Psalm 68:18) When
it says, "He went up," what does it mean? It means that he first came down low to
earth. So Jesus came down, and he is the same One who went up. He went up above
all the sky. Christ did that to fill everything with himself.

And that same Christ gave gifts to people--he made some people to be apostles, some
people to be prophets, some people to go and tell the Good News, and some people
to have the work of caring for and teaching God's people. Christ gave those gifts
to prepare God's holy people for the work of serving. He gave those gifts to make
the body of Christ stronger. This work must continue until we are all joined together
in the same faith and in the same knowledge about the Son of God. We must become
like a mature (perfect) person--we must grow until we become like Christ and have
all his perfection.

Then we will not still be babies. We will not be people who change like a ship that
the waves carry one way and then another. We will not be influenced (changed) by
every new teaching we hear from people who try to fool us. Those people make plans
and try any kind of trick to fool people into following the wrong way. No! We will
speak the truth with love. We will grow to be like Christ in every way. Christ is
the head [and we are the body]. The whole body depends on Christ. And all the parts
of the body are joined and held together. Each part of the body does its own work.
And this makes the whole body grow and be strong with love. Ephesians 4:1-16 (ERV)
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