Religion & Spirituality
We reach the halfway point of Paul’s letter. He’s expounded on all these big doctrinal points in the first half, calling us into deeper knowledge and understanding of the work of Christ but at this point he draws us back to what really matters, as Tom Wright says, ‘perhaps the best Christian doctrine is that which emerges from the life of prayer’. It seems that Paul’s deepest desire for this young church, and perhaps the most important thing for them, is that they would know the love held for them in Christ more fully. That is what our faith hinges on, that is what our faith is built on, the wide, high, long and deeply abundant love of Christ.