Study Guide Prepared by: John McVay

Key Texts: Eph 2:1-10

Key Questions

Paul describes the conversion story of pagans who have become Christians. Does every conversion story track on the same basic steps he discloses here in Ephesians 2:1-10?

Paul writes that the believers “were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” (Eph 2:3). What does that mean? How does the phrase relate to concepts of “original sin”? (See the “Excursus” that concludes this study guide)

In what sense is the believer called to track on the trajectory of Jesus from death to exaltation/enthronement? (Eph 2:4-6) How does ...