Pray: ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Ephesians 1:1-14
Re-tell the passage in your own words

General Questions:
What do you like about the text?
What do you find challenging about the text?
What does it reveal about God?
What does it say to us?
Specific Questions:
Make a list of all the ‘action phrases’ that describe what God has done for you through Jesus.
Which of these most catches your attention and why?
Which of these actions do you find most difficult to accept/believe? Why?
God’s plan was a mystery, now revealed in Jesus.
What does it mean that God will sum up everything in Christ? (Read Revelation 21:1-8).

Pray: ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Ephesians 1:15-23
Re-tell the passage in your own words

General Questions:
What do you like about the text?
What do you find challenging about the text?
What does it reveal about God?
What does it say to us?
Specific Questions:
How have you sensed God’s Spirit at work in you since you began to follow Jesus?
How has God been moulding you and opening your eyes to know more of him?
In what ways are some of the amazing privileges of knowing Jesus becoming more and more real in your life?

Pray: ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Ephesians 4:1-16
Re-tell the passage in your own words

General Questions:
What do you like about the text?
What do you find challenging about the text?
What does it reveal about God?
What does it say to us?
Specific Questions:
What does it mean to you to "live a life worthy of the calling you have received"?
When it is hard to work toward unity?
How has God gifted you? How do you contribute to the body?
In what areas of life is God growing you and maturing you to be more like Jesus? 

Pray: ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Ephesians 4:1-16
Re-tell the passage in your own words

General Questions:
What do you like about the text?
What do you find challenging about the text?
What does it reveal about God?
What does it say to us?
Specific Questions:
What teams have you been part of? What does it mean to you to be part of Jesus team?
In what ways is Jesus the team captain or the coach?
Looking at Eph 4: 25-29, which areas have you struggled with in your life? What part of the code is hardest?
Why is it so important for the Jesus team to be united and on the same page when it comes to the code? 

Pray: ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Ephesians 5:21-31
Re-tell the passage in your own words

General Questions:
What do you like about the text?
What do you find challenging about the text?
What does it reveal about God?
What does it say to us?
Specific Questions:
How does the "dance of submitting" work in the relationships you are in? What do you do when it is hard and decisions need to be made?
Watch Troy's introduction to reading the bible.  How does 'reading wide and minding the gap help us to approach this passage? Discuss in relation to to Bible elevating the position of women.
How might this passage have been used misused in the past?

For further study watch The Marriage Dance "Wired 4 Relationships" Tim Mackie (The Bible Project) 8/29/2010

Pray: Ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Ephesians 6:10-20
Re-tell the passage in your own words

General Questions:
What do you like about the text?
What do you find challenging about the text?
What does it reveal about God?
What does it say to us?
Specific Questions:
To further explore the Sin/Sickness/Satan triangle, read John 9 and discuss the gap in the cultural context between the Ephesians and us now.
What does it practically look like to intentionally put on those items of clothing from the passage.
Are these items of armour a list of qualities to put on or reminders of who Jesus is and our status/position with Him.
What do you think of the statement "In Christ" that is, what is true for Him becomes true for me?