What is the cement that holds the Church together? According to Paul, it isn’t just a common belief or salvation – while we have these in common, they are not enough on their own to make God’s people grow into a beautiful Church. Focusing for a while not on our common salvation, Paul focuses on what ought to bind together God’s people – love. Continuing his imagery of the people of God as a temple, Paul considers how wide and long, deep and high the construction is (also alluding to the limitless bounds of God’s love too). While he has discussed suffering in the cause of the gospel in the previous verses, in Ephesians 3:14-21 he considers the people of God as a growing building. Each believer is a stone in the building. The cement between believers ought to be love. Paul prays that the believers will know how glorious the Church is, the temple of God’s Spirit, the body of Christ. In case we might be tempted to think that the Church is incapable of being anything significant, let alone glorious, Paul assures the believers that God can do far more in them that they can imagine or pray about. And he does all this to his own glory – glory in Christ Jesus, and glory in the Church. We might not be much in and of ourselves, but with God doing far more in us that we can conceive of, we can look forward to seeing his masterpiece completed on the grand opening day when all of God’s children will be with him for eternity (Rev. 21:2-4).