First Reading
Ephesians 2:12-22
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
12That you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world.
13But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14For he is our peace, who has made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:
15Making void the law of commands contained in commands; that he might make the two in himself into one new man, making peace;
16And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself.
17And coming, he preached peace to you that were afar off, and peace to them that were nigh.
18For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.
19Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,
20Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:
21In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord.
22In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.