Re:Verse passage – Ephesians 3:1-13 (day three)
“…in accordance with the eternal purpose which he carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord…”
Paul came along too late to have been one of Jesus’s disciples during the three years of ministry on earth. Nonetheless Jesus apprenticed Paul during the nearly twenty years between the Damascus Road incident and the beginning of his writing and teaching. There was none more appropriate than Paul, then, to drop this bombshell revelation on the Ephesians: God’s intent all along was not a limited mission to save a fragment of the human race, but rather an expansive whosoever-will-may-come doors-thrown-open invitation to all who would come to him for healing. It was not just a sect thing, not just a Judaism thing, but a cosmos thing. The church’s work will involve inviting all the world to Christ.
