# Ephesians Chapter 3
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## Summary
Paul has written to the Ephesians for the purpose of making clear the mystery that in Christ gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, partakers of the promise. Of this good news Paul was made minister to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. That through the church the manifold wisdom of God might be made known.

Paul prayerfully requests that the Father would strengthen the Ephesians in their inner being, that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith, rooted and grounded in love to be filled with all the fullness of God. Paul ends in giving praise to God.

## Summarrium Meditatio
Up until now the letter has had a definite structure and purpose and seems well crafted. In Ephesians 3 however Paul moves from pointing out what has been given to him by God to steward, to praying that the Ephesians will be strengthened in their 'inner being'. Why the jump from one point to another?

Well largely this is because the Ephesians were primarily gentiles. Ephesus was a significant city in the Roman province of Asia (modern-day Turkey), and the Chuth in Ephesus, to which the letter of Ephesians is addressed, consisted mainly of Gentile converts to Christianity. 

However, it's likely that there were some Jewish believers among them as well, as the early Christian communities often included both Jewish and Gentile converts. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul addresses issues relevant to both Jewish and Gentile believers, emphasizing the unity they share in Christ. Specifically to outline how the gentiles are now too also brought into the body to be partakers of the promise. 

## Apologia
Life continues to make repeated demands which have been anything but convenient. They prove a distraction to projects I had hoped to undertake and interfere with planned paths of personal development. I will try to maintain the pattern for as long a feasibly possible. But constant change and the absence of routine is a frustrating distraction from an otherwise patterned existence.

I can live with doubts. I can life with uncertainty. I can even live with uncomfortable truths. But interruption is one of the few things I would rather live without.