Eph-80-81 - 38 Pt 1 Review - Summary and Appreciation
Review - Summary and Appreciation letters concerning one year of teaching Ephesians. August 5, 1981 Tonight, the closing night of the teaching of the great Book of Ephesians. As I finished my work on it this morning, a little before six o'clock, I had never looked at the back of the folder in which I keep all the notes and everything that is sent to me by the Research Department. But as I picked it up today to look at it and begin working the final details for tonight, I noticed that way at the end, after all the work on the sixth chapter had been completed, there was this summary and appreciation of Ephesians. And this is what it said: Throughout this year, the Research Team has gained a great appreciation for the intricately woven, divinely designed purpose and structure of Ephesians. Each of us has summarized in a small way, the meaningfulness of this study and our appreciation to you for it. And the first summary and appreciation of Ephesians that I read was by our own Rev. Walter J. Cummins, who is the head of our Research Department and coordinates all the research for The Way International. And through the years, you've heard me talk and say from time to time, how grateful I am for the Research Department of The Way International and how much they've helped me to put the word of Ephesians together to bless our people. I would like to read to you tonight what Rev. Walter J. Cummins wrote at the conclusion of the Research Department ' s work in the summary and appreciation of Ephesians. In addition to the minute and detailed meanings of words and phrases, I'm overwhelmed by the geometrical symmetry of the Book. It presents a structural balance between doctrine and practice with seven sections on each side, besides the opening and closing and a prayer in the exact middle. I see in this structure a perfect guideline for balanced Christian living: the doctrine and practice of the believer' s lifestyle in its completeness. It is living dynamically as God intended m
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Tweet Format: mp3 Publication Date: 08-05-1981 On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.} And I noticed again that some of the things