Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, well this is episode two of a five part series.

We're doing exploring Paul's letter to the Ephesians.

These were five different teachings that I did when I was a teaching pastor at Door of Hope,

contributions I made to exploring the book of Ephesians for our church community there.

This is a teaching based off of chapter three.

It's where Paul explores the kind of people group that has come into existence because

of Jesus' life, death and resurrection.

And the main thing that made Paul's heart beat was the fact that Jesus wasn't just Israel,

ancient Israel's Messianic King, but rather he was also the risen Lord of all humanity.

And what that means was that it was his job to create communities of people who were

following Jesus that were intentionally multi-ethnic and diverse in every sense of that word.

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