Making Sense of Church | The New Humanity - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our series Making Sense of Church with a teaching from Ephesians 2:14–18, focusing on Paul's vision of the Church as the "the new humanity." In a society marked by polarization, contempt, and hostility, Pastor Jon reminded us that Jesus Himself is our peace—the One who tears down dividing walls and creates a radically new kind of community. In Adam, the "old humanity" is marked by blame, fear, hiding, violence, and retaliation, but in Christ, we are brought into a kainos humanity—new in kind, not just in time. Through the cross, Jesus forms a people defined by grace, love, and unity.

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0:00.0	Today's teaching text is taken from Ephesians chapter 2.
0:09.2	Ephesians chapter 2 verses 14 to 18.
0:16.8	For he himself is our peace who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier,
0:24.0	the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands
0:29.5	and regulations.
0:31.4	His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace and
0:37.2	in one body to reconcile both of them to God
0:40.2	through the cross by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you
0:46.6	who were far away in peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the
0:52.9	father by one spirit.
0:55.0	This is the word of the Lord.
0:57.3	You may be seated.
1:03.3	Just before we look at this passage, just wanted to ask, how many of you came to our vocational
1:09.5	mission event yesterday?
1:11.6	Okay.
1:12.6	We're showing you these Living and Liturgy videos to show you when a vision and a seed was brought before the congregation.
1:23.6	And what happens when people give and pray and believe in it.
1:27.6	What an amazing thing God has done?
1:31.5	1,200 churches around the world using our prayer model.
1:36.5	If you come to the prayer room and you pray and you're like,
1:38.4	is this doing anything?
1:39.2	It's like, yeah, you're giving fuel and vision to people all over the world
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