Ephesians, Chapter 6: Authority Issues // Brian Ross

Somebody in your life wears you out. Maybe it’s a parent, a grown kid, a boss, or the people on your payroll. These relationships get complicated because one person has more say than the other, and they follow us home, to work, and everywhere in between.

In the final week of Ephesians, Brian Ross turns to Paul’s closing words on parents, children, and bosses, and asks what it looks like to let those relationships shape your character.

In This Teaching

• Why the relationships with the most power dynamics are the ones that get complicated
• Why God gives us kids
• Two pictures of life: a beach vacation or a war
• What could happen you choose to honor your parents instead of asking for answers
• Why Paul tells parents not to exasperate their children, and what that looks like with grown kids
• How the way you treat those who depend on you for income connects to how you relate to God

Scriptures Referenced:

• Matthew 5:44–45
• Ephesians 6:1–9, 11–12
• Luke 12:48
• Luke 18:24–25
• James 5:1, 4
• Matthew 28:18