Ephesians, Chapter 5: Leave the Door Open // Forrest Jenan

Most of us move through our days with our heads down, checking our phones, watching the clock, running late for the next thing. It’s not that we don’t care. We just don’t know what we’re looking for, so we walk right past it.

In Chapter 5 of Ephesians, Forrest Jenan asks what we might be missing about the Holy Spirit and what Paul meant when he told the church to “be filled with the Spirit.”

In This Teaching

• The Joshua Bell Metro experiment and what it says about what we miss
• A working definition of the Holy Spirit
• Why Jesus said it was good for his followers that he was leaving
• What Paul meant by “be filled with the Spirit” and why it’s an ongoing invitation
• What a Spirit-filled community looks like: singing, gratitude, and submitting to one another
• The story of Magda Trocmé and the unlocked door in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

Scriptures Referenced:

• John 16:7
• Ephesians 1:13
• Ephesians 2:22
• Ephesians 5:18–21
• Acts 2:14–15