By Grace Through Faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:1–10)

While all Scripture is equally inspired and equally authoritative, we can admit that not all Scripture is equally urgent. Not every passage of the Bible uniformly challenges its hearers and readers with a sin-confronting, reality-defining, life-shaping, soul-saving, and response-demanding set of truths. Ephesians 2:1–10, however, certainly does. Sometimes considered a condensation of Paul’s explanation of redemption in the book of Romans, this single paragraph declares the glorious truth that, while we were once dead in sin, we’ve been made alive by grace, and have now been sent to work. Whether one is unacquainted with Christ, has rejected Christ, fallen away from Christ, grown apathetic to Christ, is struggling to follow Christ, or is walking faithfully with Christ, Paul’s words in this text call for action, convicting us, inviting us, reminding us, reassuring us, and motivating us.