Week 19 – Reading Topics (Ekklesia Ch.5-6)

Chapter 5 – A Fuller Understanding of Proclamation
Ed challenges the readers to go beyond merely prophesying, casting out demons, and performing miracles, to becoming doers of the Word. He explains that there is an issue if we’re only giving money without giving the heart. Read page 66 (last few paragraphs of Chapter 5 from “Going over these passages deepens…” to “Giving money without giving the heart is the issue,” with your cohort and discuss this segment of the chapter.

Chapter 6 – A Fuller Understanding of the Cross
After reading this chapter, you might have a fuller understanding of what Jesus meant when He said, “It is finished!” What does this powerful statement from Jesus mean to you after adding insight from this chapter to your previous understanding?