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| "Dividing Wall is Down!" by Michele Hershberger | ||||||||||||
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BIBLE STUDY SESSION 117
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| KEY VERSE “For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility” Ephesians 2:14. FAITH STORY Ephesians 2:11-3:13 FAITH FOCUS Paul is writing to a church consisting of Jews and Gentiles. He refers to the historical reality of hundreds of years of hostility between the two ethnic groups. This hostility is epitomized in a wall of the Temple that has a sign warning Gentiles not to walk any closer to the Holy Place or risk death. But Jesus, says Paul, has torn down that wall so that the two humanities become one, with equal access to God. The Jews and Gentiles together become the New Temple, the dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. This new reality—Jews and Gentiles being God’s people together—is the mystery spoken of in Ephesians 3. The Gentiles were meant to be heirs all along. SESSION GOAL To help youth name the people they consider to be “the other” and to ask Jesus to help them be reconciled to those groups. Continued... |
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