What Moved You? Call for Listener Questions and Responses

After a remarkable more than year-long journey exploring Paul's letter to the Ephesians, we're pausing to create space for your voice. This brief but important episode invites our listening community to reflect on the extensive series we've created together and share questions that remain as we prepare to conclude our study.

Our exploration of Ephesians has traversed complex theological terrain, particularly when we encountered Chapter 5's challenging passages. These sections contain some of the most frequently misinterpreted verses in Christian history—texts that should nurture community but have often been weaponized instead. Throughout our series, we've sought to uncover the authentic Christ-centered message behind these words while acknowledging the harmful ways they've sometimes been understood.

What questions linger for you? Which insights transformed your understanding? How has this journey through Ephesians resonated with your spiritual life? Whether you're a longtime listener or recently discovered our podcast, we welcome your voice. 

Visit patreon.com/ccseminary to submit an audio question or written comment by May 17, 2025. 

Selected questions will be addressed in upcoming episodes as we prepare to wrap up this profound journey through one of Christianity's most impactful letters. Your perspective matters to us—we can't wait to hear how Ephesians has spoken to you.

Chapters

• 0:00 Call for Listener Feedback
• 1:06 How to Submit Your Questions
• 2:43 Next Steps for the Series

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey everyone, all of our listeners, to the light in everything we are taking this week to reach out to you, our listeners, to see if we could hear back from you your feedback, your questions, because we are about to wrap up our over one year long deep dive into Paul's letter to the Ephesians. It's been an incredible journey for us. I know for sure, and I don't think we ever could have anticipated how many months it would take to get through each part of the passages, and chapter five presented some of the most tender and challenging territory in all of the text and, yeah, it was very moving for us to move through it and try to really hear and receive the true Christ word inside them and uncover the ways in which it's been falsely understood and used and interpreted in the history of Christianity. We would love to hear from you how has this been? What have been important elements for you? But, most especially, we'd love also to hear questions or comments that feel important to share. Questions or comments that feel important to share If you go to our Patreon site at patreoncom forward slash ccseminary.

Speaker 1: 1:39

That's patreoncom forward slash ccseminary. Those of you who hear this, who are podcast listeners on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or wherever you may listen to this other than Patreon. Go to our Patreon site If you'd like to see the instructions for making an audio message for us that we can respond to in some of the next episodes. We will collect this for a couple of weeks, so you'll have about two weeks time from today, may 3rd 2025. And otherwise, our patrons, those of you who already support the show you will have access to this information and we would especially love to hear from you.

Speaker 1: 2:26

You can also leave a written question in the comments. If you don't want to hear, have your voice be on the show, but there may be two, three, four questions that we can then take up in the episode itself. So that's what we'd like to do this episode. We're taking just a small break this week so you all can have a chance to look back over these last chapter, five episodes and the whole series as well, if you like, and then we'll have a couple of episodes to wrap up the letter after that. Okay, thanks so much, and we look forward to hearing from you.