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The Dig - MGCB Roots Family Ministry
The Dig is a family discipleship tool for families at Mechanic Grove Church of the Brethren (and more!) to DIG into last week's learning as a church family and prep for what's to come next week.
Our goal is to empower parents and spiritual family members to DEEPEN their understanding and application of scripture, IGNITE curiosity for what’s next and GROW as fruit-producing, God-glorifying disciples.
Deepen. Ignite. Grow. The Dig.
The Dig - MGCB Roots Family Ministry
02: Ephesians 1:15-23 - Deepen
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Hey Church Fam!
During this season of “The Dig” we’ll be “digging” into the book of Ephesians! Each week we’ll drop three mini episodes - one to deepen our understanding of what we’ll be reading that week in Ephesians, one to ignite our curiosity about how that week’s scripture fits into the God’s big story and the good news of the gospel, and then one to help us grow as fruit-producing, God-glorying disciples!
This is a DEEPEN Episode! This week we are reading Ephesians 1:15-23. Below you can find a suggested reading plan.
READING PLAN
- M: Ephesians 1:15-23
- T: Ephesians 1:15-16
- W: Ephesians 1:17-18
- Th: Ephesians 1:19-20
- F: Ephesians 1:21-23
- Sat: Ephesians 1:15-18
- Sun: Ephesians 1:19-23
RESOURCES
Welcome to the Dig Church Family. This podcast will serve as a way for the church and the home to connect outside of the church building, providing parents and spiritual families with a resource to dig into God's word together. As always, when we dig, we're deepening our understanding, igniting our curiosity, and growing as fruit-producing, God-glorifying disciples. During this season of the dig, we'll be digging into the book of Ephesians. Each week, we'll drop three mini episodes. One, to deepen our understanding of what we're reading that week, two, to ignite our curiosity about what how that scripture from the week fits into God's big story and the good news of the gospel, and then one to help us grow as fruit-producing, God-glorifying disciples. Today's mini episode is a deepen episode. During these episodes, I'll set you up for what we'll be reading this week. I'll give you a few things to be looking for, and then some questions for you to be asking as you study. This week we'll be reading Ephesians 1, verses 15 through 23. In the show notes, you can find a suggested breakdown of these daily readings, or you can just read this passage every day. While you're reading this week, here are three things to be on the lookout for. Just like last week, be on the lookout for the mentions of the three persons of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. If you marked them with a certain symbol or color in your Bible last week, use that same pattern this week. Second, take note of the specific things that Paul is praying for the Ephesian church. You could write a list of them in a journal or underline them in your Bible or just count them in your head as you read this week. The last thing I want you to be on the lookout for as you read or as you dig is the word power. Talk together as a family or make a note in your journal. What is Paul saying about Jesus' power in these verses? Okay, you have what to look for. So let me leave you with a few things to think about or some questions for you to ask yourself or your family members as you read. Number one, how do your prayers for people compare to Paul's prayers in this week's passage? That's a good one. Number two, what does Paul mean in Ephesians 1, 17? How do we know God? Or how does the Holy Spirit help us know God? And number three, what characteristic or attribute of God are you really thankful for after reading this week's passage? To wrap up our deep end episodes, I'm going to read our passage aloud each week. Grab your Bibles and read along, or sit quietly and listen to God's word. This is Ephesians chapter 1, verses 15 through 23. For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance and his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us to believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age, but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be the head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way. This is the word of the Lord.